Administration

January 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Georgia will join a group of other states in divesting its public retirement assets from companies with Sudan-related investments -...

January 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday issued interim final rules for reporting and recordkeeping requirements under the executive compensation standards of...

January 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two private-sector study groups have released a finalized version of a series of industry best practices for asset managers and hedge fund investors...

January 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The former chief investment officer for New Mexico's public schoolteachers' pension fund charges in a newly unsealed lawsuit that two state funds lost...

January 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Implementing a cap on the amount employers can exclude from income for employee health benefits would be difficult and potentially costly to administer,...

January 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer told a bankruptcy judge that it would represent the government in liquidation proceedings against Bernard Madoff's investment company...

January 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Japanese defined benefit pension funds entered the tumultuous third quarter of 2008 in a relatively strong position, with average funding ratios of better...

January 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even with pension funding relief approved late in 2008, U.S. employers will be required to contribute more than $108 billion into their defined...

January 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pension plan belonging to a Connecticut town is apparently the latest victim of what authorities have charged was Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

January 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following reports of a $42 million Madoff-related loss, the town of Fairfield Connecticut's joint pension boards voted to end a contract with New...

January 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In its newly-released Russell Retirement Report 2009, Russell Investments contends that liability-driven investing (LDI) will finally move from the contemplation stage to become...

January 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The outgoing director of the nation's private-sector pension insurer has warned in a media interview that while the three big automakers' pension programs...

January 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Fort Worth Retirement Fund could find itself stung by an investment it no longer holds.

January 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the first time in the 26-year-history of the Wisconsin Retirement System, pension checks drawn on the Core Fund will fall by at...

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The law firm of Stember Feinstein Doyle & Payne, LLC is investigating conduct which it believes may have caused losses to the KV...

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As investors and regulators sort through the assets affected by a $50-billion Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Bernard L. Madoff, the list of pension...

January 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the latest capital market update from Towers Perrin the funded ratio for Towers Perrin's benchmark pension plan showed a 6.9 percentage point...

January 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The funding status of the largest U.S. companies' pension plans, which Mercer said has suffered an "alarming deterioration," plummeted from a 104% surplus at...

January 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Funding ratios at the typical U.S. corporate pension plan slid more than 11 percentage points in December, according to BNY Mellon Asset Management.

January 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Hewitt Associates survey finds that many companies around the world have not taken adequate measures to guard against defined benefit (DB)...