Administration

February 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Harvard University's money management arm said last week that it plans to cut about 25% of its staff in the coming months.

February 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Absolute Return magazine New Funds Survey for 2008 shows that assets for new hedge fund launches declined significantly in the U.S. in...

February 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has worked out a settlement of stock options backdating charges with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC).

February 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled Wednesday a series of pay curbs, including a strict new limit on executive salaries...

January 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than a year after launching an investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Merrill Lynch and two of its former...

February 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund data repository NewRiver, Inc. announced it has filed suit against Morningstar Inc. over use of its prospectus product.

February 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials with the Louisiana State Police Retirement System and New Orleans City Employees' Retirement System say they each may have lost $400,000 in...

February 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension funds using liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies may not have been strongly in the black during 2008, but a new study suggested they...

January 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly half of Americans own an individual retirement account (IRA), though the odds are that those accounts were funded by an employer-sponsored retirement...

January 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The world's largest maker of missiles, Raytheon, announced its profit during the fourth quarter cratered under the weight of rising pension costs.

January 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The New Orleans Employees Retirement System has filed a class action lawsuit seeking billions of dollars in damages from UBS.

January 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. pension funds are projecting sharply reduced investment returns from major asset classes through 2013, according to new research from Greenwich Associates.

January 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A union pension fund has sued JPMorgan Chase over allegations it breached its fiduciary duties to its pension clients investing in the financial...

January 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street has been hit with another federal court lawsuit alleging it took positions in risky subprime mortgage-backed securities in its Daily Bond...

January 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Struggling Seattle Times Co. said Wednesday it will ask some of its unionized workers to allow the freezing of future accruals to their...

January 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Janus Capital Group is exiting the institutional money market business after deciding its money market offerings have not achieved the size necessary...

January 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study of the Retirement Systems of Alabama says its investments in Alabama companies helped provide more than 5,800 jobs and $245 million...

January 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he might try to extend to all U.S. companies a restriction that prohibits banks getting bailout money...

January 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust announced today the scheduled closing of Northern Exchange Traded Shares (NETS) , as of February 20, 2009.

January 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Members of Local 210 of the Laborers International Union of North America in New York received letters last week informing them their pension...