Administration

April 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Diego is suing its police officers' union in an effort to reduce officers' pension benefits and thereby reduce the city's budget deficit.

April 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under heavy Congressional pressure, the nation's accounting-standards board on Thursday approved new relaxed guidelines for the controversial mark-to-market asset valuation rules even though...

April 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Treasury Department has extended its intervention efforts to support money market funds for five more months, the agency announced.

April 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The executive director of Colorado's largest state pension fund has called off 2008 bonuses for the fund's investment managers in light of the...

April 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Oregon has filed court papers requesting to join an existing securities fraud case against Swiss bank UBS to recover more...

April 1, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five years after acquiring Columbia Management Group as part of an acquisition, Bank of America (BoA) intends to offload the business in an...

April 1, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dow Jones Indexes has introduced the Dow Jones Total Stock Market Indexes, which will serve as its primary global benchmark family.

March 31, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by investment firm PIMCO finds that defined contribution plan sponsors are most concerned with capital preservation, diversification and inflation protection.

March 31, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CVC Capital Partners is in exclusive talks with Barclays PLC to buy its exchange-traded funds business iShares, people familiar with the situation told...

March 31, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In times of life crisis, family finances may suffer significantly, according to the results of a nationwide survey released by AARP Financial Inc.

March 31, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Milliman's fourth annual Guaranteed Living Benefits (GLB) survey of leading U.S. variable annuity (VA) carriers revealed that about 96% of variable annuities offered...

March 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System (IPERS), which had invested $500 million with California-based Westridge Capital Management, has only recovered $35 million from...

March 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Six weeks after announcing Mercer would acquire Callan Associates in a deal making the merged investment consulting operation one of the largest in...

March 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Motors Asset Management (GMAM) has changed its brand identity to Promark Global Advisors, Inc. (Promark).

March 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America Corp. may raise the salaries of some investment bankers by up to 70% as a result of its acquisition of...

March 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One Pensacola public pension fund has filed suit and a second is considering going to court over allegations Merrill Lynch is responsible for...

March 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest public pension fund says it plans to change the way it does business with hedge funds.

March 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private equity consortiums pursuing Barclays' iShares investment unit have until Sunday to submit binding bids, unnamed sources told Reuters.

March 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new State Street Corp. institutional investor hedge fund survey found that the majority reported an intention to increase or maintain hedge fund...

March 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Obama administration is proposing big changes to the way the U.S. financial system is regulated with the intention to clamp down broadly...