Administration

July 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Deloitte estimate indicates that the combined pension funding shortfall at FTSE 100 companies more than doubled since January to over £300...

July 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Obama administration has sent legislation to Congress which calls for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to oversee hedge, private equity, and...

July 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Treasury has delivered draft "say-on-pay" legislation to Congress that would require all publicly traded companies to give shareholders a non-binding vote...

July 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has rejected Citigroup Inc.'s argument that Wachovia Corp. lacked authority to accept a takeover by Wells Fargo & Co. that...

July 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts securities regulators said they have launched an inquiry into the sales practices of leveraged exchange traded funds.

July 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - States have unfunded liabilities for retiree health care of about $558 billion, according to a report from the Center for State and Local...

July 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest public pension fund has filed a lawsuit over $1 billion in losses it says were caused by "wildly inaccurate" credit...

July 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Global hedge fund assets will not return to 2007 levels of $2.9 trillion until 2013, but they will still grow faster than global...

July 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investment managers expect corporate earnings to increase in the next three months, and a majority expect global GDP growth to accelerate in the...

July 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Missouri broker who officials charge had improperly convinced investors to stop their 401(k) contributions and refinance their homes to free up money...

July 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey's State Investment Council voted to continue using third-party placement agents to arrange pension fund business as long as the firms meet...

July 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. equity brokers say the pool of commission dollars they earn on institutional trades of domestic equities could fall this year by 23%,...

July 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The share of institutional equity brokerage commissions captured by independent third-party research providers declined significantly during the months of tumultuous trading in U.S....

July 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At the halfway point of 2009, private equity firms raised just over a third of the capital they were able to attract from...

July 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The recent market turmoil has sparked many nonprofit foundations and endowments to take another look at their overall investment management process.

July 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alternative assets managed on behalf of pension funds by the world's largest investment managers decreased by around 1% to $817 billion in 2008...

July 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In response to the faltering economy and difficulty many municipalities expect in meeting their pension obligations, Pennsylvania's Public Employers Retirement Commission (PERC) is...

July 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report from Finadium suggests that asset managers have learned from hedge funds that investors seek a wide variety of risk and...

July 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Goldman Sachs computer programmer has been charged with stealing trade secrets based on the theft of computer codes used for automated...

July 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has tapped a group of public pension funds as lead plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against...