Administration

October 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Ohio Highway Patrol Retirement System announced today that an RFP has been issued for a search for a Fund of Hedge Funds...

September 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The board that manages York County, Pennsylvania's employee retirement plan is trying to stop the $50 billion sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank...

September 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A growing number of small businesses are feeling the stress of the tough economy, leading many to cut back on retirement savings or...

September 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation signed into law by Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell includes a licensing program that provides employer status to the professional employer organizations (PEOs)...

September 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Morgan Stanley Funds' Board of Directors/Trustees has approved the participation of its money market funds in the U.S. Treasury Temporary Guarantee Program.

September 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 60% of institutional investors, large companies, and pension funds around the world think the $700 billion government bailout rejected on Monday...

September 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust Corporation announced Monday it would "take certain actions" to support securities lending clients whose cash collateral is invested in five constant...

September 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Local Maryland government officials say they will be in a tough spot if Governor Martin O'Malley tries to shift the state's $622 million...

September 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private equity firms Bain Capital Partners, LLC and Hellman & Friedman LLC have agreed to acquire Neuberger Berman, the 69-year-old asset management firm,...

September 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wachovia Retirement Services is one of the business units not going to Citigroup as part of Monday's acquisition of the Charlotte, North Carolina-based...

September 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cultural integration issues in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions have direct financial implications on deal value, according to the results of Mercer's Cultural...

September 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which sets U.S. accounting rules, is conferring with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about whether...

September 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. public companies are becoming increasingly more responsive to good corporate governance practices and to the interests of their shareholders, according to Shearman...

September 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Cerulli report suggests that between 2008 and 2013, rollovers from 401(k), 403(b), and 457 plans will account for nearly $1.9 trillion...

September 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following the U.S. Department of the Treasury's announcement on September 19 of an emergency, temporary guaranty program to protect shareholders of money market...

September 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Broker-dealer Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. is suing mutual fund manager the Reserve Fund, alleging Reserve Fund personnel secretly and improperly alerted various institutional...

September 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has unveiled a new Retirement Compliance Unit to police compliance with eligibility requirements for the New York...

September 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor and Delphi Corp. have obtained approval of a settlement that restores money to a savings plan lost as...

September 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three new Model Request for Proposals - one each for equity investments, fixed income investments, and real estate investments - are now available...

September 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National trade groups representing the nation's largest public pension funds contended that state and local pension programs "remain sound" despite the ongoing Wall...