Administration

September 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Yale University announced its endowment lost 24.6% in the fiscal year ended June 30, when big bets on private equity holdings, real estate,...

September 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal securities regulators said they will take the opportunity of pre-trial fact-finding in their existing case against the Bank of America (BofA) over...

September 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Federal Reserve would have to approve executive compensation policies set by financial institutions as part of its proposal designed to curb excessive...

September 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined benefit sponsors have come through the economic downturn with a key issue on their minds: risk and how to properly mitigate it.

September 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the nation's private sector pension insurer has made strides in recent years handling the processing of large and complex pension plans, a...

September 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer said it advised clients on 65 investment manager searches in the U.S. during the first half of 2009, compared to 61 a...

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new staff report about plan governance at U.S. public pension programs recommended Florida get an annual independent auditor to examine its state...

September 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has gone back to federal court asking a judge to force a former home health care firm...

September 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey by the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) found City and county managers have employed a range of strategies to weather...

September 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pennsylvania state House has approved a new version of legislation proposing the Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System take over municipal retirement systems with...

September 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Strong portfolio returns could not offset a large decline in corporate bond yields in August, pushing the Towers Perrin Pension Index down 1%,...

September 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 56% of respondents in a recent survey said their retirement savings losses were among the most significant impacts on their lives from...

September 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow has sentenced Alan Neal Mates of Weston, Florida, to a year and a day in prison followed...

September 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illustrating the grievous toll the market turmoil has taken on Harvard University's endowment, a new report indicates the fund shed nearly $11 billion...

November 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With Fortune 1000 companies under ever-increasing pressure to eliminate their unfunded long-term liabilities, many are uncertain as to how to finance efficiently other...

September 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray announced that the $475-million settlement between the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) and Merrill Lynch has been finalized.

September 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - What was once the largest U.S. real estate deal ever may end up a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that may take millions in pension...

September 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wilshire Consulting estimates that the funding ratio for all 104 city and county pension plans it researched was 81% in 2008, significantly lower...

September 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin's office has settled for $8 million with financial swindler Bernard Madoff's feeder fund Fairfield Greenwich Group, becoming...

September 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American International Group, Inc. (AIG) has announced an agreement to sell a portion of its investment advisory and asset management business to Bridge...