Administration

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with allegations of federal disability benefit abuses among retirees at the Long Island Railroad (LIRR), the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (URRB) has...

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research from Pyramis Global Advisors, Fidelity Investments' institutional asset manager, reflects that while Canadian pension plans are surviving market volatility, there is...

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A retirement services trade group has released a 10-point plan for Congress to reform plans to help participants be better able to weather...

October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Company pensions that went into 2008 in good shape may go into 2009 with what could be their largest underfunding ever from recent...

October 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An effort tied to the United Nations has generated a framework through which asset managers, banks and other financial services companies can report...

October 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Argentina's leftist President Cristina Kirchner has signed a proposal nationalizing the country's private pension funds.

October 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Invesco Aim announced that Invesco Aim Advisors, Inc. has approved the reopening of AIM International Small Company Fund.

October 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A poll of investment managers conducted by Northern Trust Global Advisors (NTGA) found a large majority, regardless of investment strategy, expect corporate earnings...

October 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal prosecutors have added new wire fraud and conspiracy charges to the long-running prosecution of five former city of San Diego retirement officials.

October 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has informed its securities lending clients that they are now barred from pulling out their money all at...

October 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Deloitte data shows the worldwide market turmoil has driven FTSE 100 pension deficits to more than £100 billion ($176 billion) if plans...

October 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A quarter of plan sponsors who don't use derivatives as a risk-management tool show a lack of understanding of how the derivatives can...

October 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eight (mostly) former employees of Fidelity Investments have reached preliminary settlements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a gift-taking probe,...

October 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a national survey of CFOs and senior comptrollers conducted by Grant Thornton LLP, 66% of respondents said the average CEO is overpaid,...

October 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday announced a technical correction that would permit additional money market funds to participate in its Temporary Money...

October 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments, Vanguard Group and T. Rowe Price Group said they are joining the U.S. Treasury Department's guarantee program for money market funds.

October 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study of local government pension funding has found that the local plans are, as a rule, funded as well or better...

October 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Associated Press reports the retirement plan for New Hampshire judges has asked a Superior Court judge to decide the constitutionality of a...

October 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Washington, D.C.-based American Academy of Actuaries' board of directors has asked the Actuarial Standards Board to develop standards for consistently measuring the...

October 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hartford Mutual Funds have decided to participate in the new Money Market Fund Guaranty Program from the U.S. Treasury.