Administration

Administration | June 1st, 2010

PA Plans Hold Life Insurance Settlement Investments

June 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Two Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-area county governments have turned to investing a piece of their pension funds in life insurance settlements as a volatility hedge.

Administration | May 28th, 2010

CalPERS Announces New Method for Submitting Investment Proposals

May 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - External money managers seeking business with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) will soon be able to use the Internet to send...

Administration | May 27th, 2010

Multiemployer Programs Face Numerous Challenges

May 27, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Demographic changes and other trends in society have only served to dramatically increase the funding pressure on multiemployer pension plans, a Government Accountability...

Administration | May 24th, 2010

Rate of Return Tops List of Info Investors Want

May 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DALBAR, Inc. has released its national study of what investors expect to see in a statement from financial services companies.

Administration | May 24th, 2010

Poll Finds Simplified Annuity Activity on the Horizon

May 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Nearly two-thirds of insurers and others in a recent survey indicated that they either offer simplified annuities or plan to do so in...

Administration | May 24th, 2010

Mission Compatibility Moves Unitarians Toward a New Recordkeeper

May 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Unitarian Universalist Association has decided to dump its incumbent recordkeeper for reasons that have nothing to do with its...

Administration | May 21st, 2010

House Bill Carries Pension Funding Relief

May 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A bill expected to be considered by the U.S. House of Representatives on May 25 includes long-awaited pension funding relief measures, according to...

Administration | May 21st, 2010

IL TRS Launches Search for International Bond Manager

May 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Board of Trustees of the Teachers’ Retirement System has launched a nationwide search for a money management firm to oversee an allocation...

Administration | May 21st, 2010

Bill Encourages Diversity among CA Pension Investment Managers

May 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California's public pension funds would have to report the ethnicity and gender of some of the outside investment managers they hire under a...

Administration | May 21st, 2010

Golden State Placement Agent Bill Stalls in Committee

May 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A move to limit pension placement agents’ influence over California’s public pension programs came to a halt this week when a measure containing...

Administration | May 20th, 2010

FRC Recommends Restructure of Target-date Funds

May 20, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a new study, “Rethinking Lifecycle Funds,” Financial Research Corporation says that while target-date funds are being marketed as a total retirement solution,...

Administration | May 19th, 2010

Goldman Makes a Grab for 401(k) Business

May 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Goldman Sachs, now fighting a U.S. government fraud lawsuit over whether it misled investors, is apparently making a serious play for more 401(k)...

Administration | May 18th, 2010

Study Makes a Case for Increasing MOSERS Staff Pay

May 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study by CBIZ Human Capital Services of St. Louis makes a case for giving Missouri State Employees Retirement System staff higher base...

Administration | May 18th, 2010

More Boards Demanding Quicker CEO Results

May 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Booz & Company’s latest study of CEO succession found that corporate boards continue to hire insiders, are more often splitting the CEO/Chairman role,...

Administration | May 18th, 2010

Investors Turn to U.S. Equities in Face of Eurozone Concerns

May 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors have sought refuge in U.S. markets in the week that eurozone states delivered a financial package to allay sovereign debt concerns, according...

Administration | May 17th, 2010

Private Equity Investors Bullish on the Market’s Future

May 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly four out of five private equity investors, or limited partners (LPs), say their allocations to the asset class would remain at current...

Administration | May 17th, 2010

RI Public Employee Unions Fight Cutbacks in Court

May 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A coalition of Rhode Island public employee unions has gone to court to challenge state benefit cutbacks.

Administration | May 17th, 2010

NJ Officials: Benefits Changes are Legal

May 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New Jersey Attorney General Paula T. Dow has asserted that changes in government worker pensions and benefits should not be disturbed in court...

Administration | May 17th, 2010

Principal Real Estate Fund Makes Another Payment

May 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Principal has made another liquidation instalment on its frozen real estate fund.

Administration | May 14th, 2010

Some Nervous about New EU Financial Mandates

May 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Tough proposed regulations by the European Union (EU) of hedge funds and private equity concerns may represent an early political defeat for U.K....