Administration

August 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York state appellate court has suspended for three years the Empire State law license of the former general counsel of a...

August 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securities lawyers were not quite as busy during the second quarter of 2009 as lawsuits plummeted from 221 during the first quarter to...

July 31, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent Charles Schwab survey found that just four out of 10 mutual fund investors surveyed (39%) have made changes to their portfolio...

July 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A second state pension plan has sued the top credit rating agencies for misleading investors by giving high ratings to subprime mortgage-backed securities.

July 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson (D-Minnesota) released a concept paper that will...

July 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram has filed a lawsuit against Merrill Lynch & Co. charging that it sold New Jersey's Division of...

July 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Now that all the hype and barrage of new offerings in the market have died down, is there still opportunity in target-date funds...

July 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Cerulli report says institutional ownership of mutual funds totaled $4.3 trillion at year-end 2008, a decline of 12.3% from prior year...

July 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Los Angeles pension fund has voted to require any company seeking business with its board to disclose campaign contributions made to city...

July 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Neuberger Berman Group LLC has agreed to acquire Lehman Brothers Trust Company, N.A. and Lehman Brothers Trust Company of Delaware.

July 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted unanimously to propose measures intended to curtail "pay to play" practices by investment advisers that...

Should public fund staff receive bonuses when the fund suffers a loss?

July 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A trade group of public pension plans has come out in favor of making no changes in the current standard of selecting the...

July 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In testimony before the U.S. Department of Labor's ERISA Advisory Council, James King, Jr., vice president and head of Prudential Retirement's Stable Value...

July 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In PLANSPONSOR's 2009 Transition Management Survey, fewer than three-quarters (72.9%) of some 561 plan sponsor respondents said they had completed transition trades during...

July 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to the 2009 ETF Mid-Year Review: Follow The Flows from State Street Global Advisors, U.S. ETF asset flows were marked by a...

July 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Callan's 2009 Securities Lending Survey found that approximately 48% of respondent firms with securities lending programs are undergoing a controlled withdrawal to reduce...

July 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) released its preliminary 2008-09 investment performance, noting a decline in the market value of its assets...

July 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The bankrupt Sun-Times Media Group Inc. did not submit more than $800,000 in required quarterly contributions to five pension plans earlier this year,...

July 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of federal securities class action cases filed in the first six months of 2009 dropped by 22.3% over a year earlier,...