Administration

March 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey state lawmakers have approved Governor Jon Corzine's proposal allowing financially strapped towns and school districts to delay half their payments to...

March 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill to give Kentucky cities and counties short-term financial relief from retiree health care costs was approved by the state Senate budget...

March 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Oppenheimer & Co. is opening new branches in four states and expanding existing branch sites in the four states and Texas with financial...

March 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sixty-eight percent of chief financial officers in a poll said they have found ways in the last year to keep up the mood...

March 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials announced on Thursday that Bernard L. Madoff pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to eleven felony counts related to a $50...

March 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of U.S. households with a net worth of $1 million or more, not including primary residence (NIPR), fell 27% to 6.7...

March 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dennis M. Dowd, formerly the senior manager of human resources of Hitachi America Ltd., has pleaded guilty to defrauding a company benefit plan...

March 11, 2009 (PLANSONSOR.com) - The state board charged with overseeing public pensions in Texas could get more funding and authority under a bill filed by state Senate...

March 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The value and number of federal securities class action settlements declined in 2008, according to a report by Cornerstone Research.

March 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index, representing 100 of the nation's largest defined benefit pension plans, lost another $54 billion in assets in...

March 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A look at actual 2008 disclosures for the largest 100 U.S. corporate pension plan sponsors finds aggregate funding fell by $303 billion last...

March 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funds of hedge funds industry shrank by nearly 30% in 2008, according to the latest survey of the InvestHedge Billion Dollar Club.

March 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bernard L. Madoff, the accused mastermind of a giant Ponzi scheme that ensnared pension funds and institutional investors such as endowments, among other...

March 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli accepted and released the report of the Pension Fund Task Force, an independent advisory panel created...

March 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Vanguard Group has closed its Treasury money market fund to new investments.

March 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Since the inception of target-date funds, it has been debated whether the 'target date' is the end or just a bump in a...

March 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following a 5% improvement in January, funding ratios at the typical U.S. corporate pension plan dropped six percentage points in February, according to...

March 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A subsidiary of a Connecticut insurance and benefits broker has agreed to pay $470,000 and change its business practices after a state of...

March 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The securities lending unit of American International Group Inc. was being successfully wound down and had manageable losses if not for the firm's...

March 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the pension plans of S&P 1500 companies held steady in February despite further falls in the value of equities...