Administration

January 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nine states have reached a $7-million settlement with New York-based insurance broker Marsh, Inc., a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., resolving...

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)...

January 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Parents' savings for their children's college educations took a big hit as a bond fund offered by at least four state 529 plans...

January 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study from Pershing LLC, a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, and Aite Group LLC indicates that managing...

January 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pension fund for Baltimore police and fire employees lost about $3.5 million invested in a fund with ties to fallen money manager...

January 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The trustees of the £2 billion-Philips Electronics UK pension fund have sued Hewitt Associates and a former top executive over what the trustees...

January 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Connecticut town's pension fund that lost about $17 million in a Bernard Madoff-related investment will force officials to add an additional pension...

April 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The greatest fear among risk managers is by far rising medical costs, with 52% of managers in a recent survey saying that was...

January 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More households own mutual funds inside tax-deferred accounts—such as defined contribution (DC) plans, individual retirement accounts (IRAs), and variable annuities—than outside these accounts,...

December 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. bond sales and asset-backed securities issuance were down sharply in 2008 amid the global credit crisis.

December 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite losing more than £70 billion in assets over the year, Britain's biggest company pension schemes ended the year with a £3 billion...

December 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the wake of the recent market turmoil, South Korea's National Pension Service will cut back on its allocation to equities.

December 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State and local government pension systems paid out a record $168 billion to 7.5 million retirees and survivors in fiscal year 2007.

December 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On December 18, 2008, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Enforcement informed counsel to Reserve Management Company, Inc....

December 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tribune Company has asked a federal judge for permission to pay pre-bankruptcy and future contributions to union pension plans.

December 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Saying a lack of outside investing amid tight credit markets will prevent them from getting big enough to be meaningful to the company,...

December 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York hedge fund executive Ezra Merkin has been sued again for entrusting investments with confessed swindler Bernard Madoff, this time by New...

December 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three state senators have lent their voices to those calling on Pennsylvania's Public School Employees' Retirement System to rescind the bonuses being awarded...

December 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Greenwich, Connecticut, town officials say it could take an infusion of close to $100 million to make the town's pension fund whole again...

December 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced the selection of "strategic partners" to manage $2.5 billion in private equity and real estate assets.