Administration

April 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle has proposed allowing the city of Milwaukee to issue pension obligation bonds to cover its pension fund payments.

April 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has subpoenaed Tribune Co. in an investigation connected to the media company's employee stock-ownership plan (ESOP).

April 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of the many offshoots of the fallout over the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme scandal is a renewed focus on the role of...

April 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As if it were not facing enough trouble with a number of lawsuits over subprime mortgage investments, now State Street Corp. has to...

September 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Whitbread PLC said Friday it will close the defined benefit section of the Group Pension Fund to future accruals at the end of...

April 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP announced that a class action has been commenced on behalf of institutional investors in Austin Capital...

April 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.K. bank Barclays PLC agreed Thursday to sell its iShares exchange-traded funds business to European private-equity firm CVC Capital Partners.

April 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey of investment managers by Northern Trust Global Advisors (NTGA) found that nearly half of those surveyed are less risk averse than...

April 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new analysis by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) shows that, under current accounting rules, underfunded public pension plan sponsors face...

April 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Boston federal court jury has turned aside NewRiver's patent infringement lawsuit against Newkirk.

April 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aon U.K., the London-based arm of Aon Corp., said it wants to cut its standard employer pension contributions to better control costs in...

April 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As equity markets rebounded and bond yields continued to increase, the funded status of pension plans of the S&P 1500 improved by $158...

April 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Barclays PLC is expected to announce as soon as tomorrow that it has reached an agreement to sell iShares.

April 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The net impact of strong equity returns and the increase in corporate bond yields was a 3.5 percentage point increase in March of...

April 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey is contemplating participation in the Treasury's Public-Private Investment Program for Legacy Assets in an attempt to undo the damage caused by...

April 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A stock market rally and wider spreads for corporate bonds combined to improve the funding status of a typical U.S. corporate pension plan...

April 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 14-member staff of the Missouri State Employees Retirement System (MOSERS) received almost $300,000 in bonuses even as the pension fund lost almost...

April 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a proposed $75-million deal to settle claims Merrill Lynch violated its fiduciary responsibilities by keeping...

April 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Treasury has given fund managers two more weeks to apply to its toxic securities purchase and has put in place less...

April 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS Global Asset Management's US Pension Fund Fitness Tracker shows pension funding ratios increased by 6% in the first quarter of 2009.