Administration

October 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional investment managers polled by Northern Trust Global Advisors (NTGA) in the third quarter of 2009 expressed near-consensus optimism on the economy -...

October 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with a 27% plunge in the value of its $12.6-billion portfolio as of August 31, and in an effort raise its liquidity...

October 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The net impact of strong portfolio returns and a decline in corporate bond yields was a 0.6% increase in the Towers Perrin Pension...

October 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.K. Pensions Regulator has announced a revamped plan valuation summary form that is typically submitted with a plan recovery document.

October 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study finds that about half of the ten largest Sovereign Wealth Funds SWFs have achieved a relatively high level of disclosure,...

October 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Consolidation looms for some asset managers as revenue declines continue to outweigh steep cost-cutting measures after assets slumped and clients switched to low-cost...

October 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey of U.K. fund providers shows the more often used DC default solution is based on a target return and a...

October 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new London School of Economics study indicates that appointing more female directors can help a company's governance, but could ultimately hurt its...

October 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A senior portfolio manager of the State of Wisconsin Investment Board will get a $150,000 bonus and three others $100,000 or more as...

October 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.K. insurer Aegon has admitted a systems glitch has been overvaluing by 25% the pensions of about 7,000 people who purchased the company's...

October 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced two guilty pleas in the ongoing investigation relating to the New York State Common Retirement Fund (CRF).

October 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is expected to propose remaking the board of the Empire State's pension fund by adding 12 more...

October 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. employers will be required to contribute $89 billion into their defined benefit (DB) plans in 2010 and more than $146 billion in...

October 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite six consecutive months of positive U.S. equity performance, the funded status of pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies declined from 84%...

October 6 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the economic recession, institutional investors have remained fundamentally committed to the same investment policies they were adopting prior to the credit crunch,...

October 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. stocks rose for the seventh consecutive month, helping to increase the funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan by 0.6...

October 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In aggregate, investment managers report that fee revenue has declined each year since 2006, and both fee revenue and pre-tax profit margins are...

October 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS Global Asset Management's US Pension Fund Fitness Tracker shows pension funding ratios decreased by one percentage point in the third quarter of...

October 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Invesco has emerged in the lead to acquire the mutual fund business from Morgan Stanley's Van Kampen, according to a Wall Street Journal...

October 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Elliott Broidy, founder of Markstone Capital Partners, won at least a brief reprieve in a federal investigation into how public pension systems allocate...