Administration

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new study finds that auto-enrollment and auto-contribution escalation in 401(k) plans can result in a big improvement in retirement savings, depending on...

October 7, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vanguard has appointed Wellington Management Company, LLP and Delaware Investments as investment advisers to Vanguard U.S. Growth Fund.

October 6, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In a letter responding to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board’s (GASB’s) preliminary views (PV) on pension accounting and financial reporting by employers, the...

October 5, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a time when U.S. pension plan funded positions have been battered by volatile equity markets and falling interest rates, many defined benefit...

October 5, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar has revised its classification structure for global equities based on the market a company serves rather than the type of business it...

October 5, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said city pension funds have set unrealistically high assumed rates of return on investments, at 8%.

October 5, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Advancing its real estate restructuring plan, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced the consolidation of its entire core multifamily apartment portfolio...

October 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Sixty-one percent of respondents in a recent Mercer survey said the most serious global mobility compliance issue involved tax return revisions caused by...

October 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of U.S. pension plans improved during September from the historic low position recorded at the end of August, resulting in...

October 4, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legal & General Investment Management America’s (LGIMA) Pension Fiscal Fitness Monitor shows that pension funding ratios rebounded 2% in the third quarter of...

October 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – As expected, Aon Corporation today completed its merger of Hewitt Associates, Inc. with a subsidiary of Aon, creating Aon Hewitt.

October 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A trading firm’s use of a computer sell order triggered the May 6 market plunge, which sent the Dow Jones industrial average dropping...

September 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a pair of former State Street Bank and Trust Company employees with misleading investors about...

September 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a pair of former State Street Bank and Trust Company employees with misleading investors about...

September 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate Insight recently found that 45% of the asset management firms it tracks are employing social media in some way.

September 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to introduce rules "in the next few weeks" that direct the agency to give shareholders in 2011...

September 30, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Two national business groups have gone to court to challenge the new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proxy access rule. 

September 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Defined contribution money managers may have an unlikely benefactor to thank for helping to deliver an estimated $1.9 trillion in contributions over the...

September 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Target-date funds are expected to capture $1.7 trillion worth of asset flows and account for 60% of all defined contribution assets and revenues...

September 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has settled an antitrust lawsuit against Marsh & McLennan Companies for $4.75 million.