Administration

September 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report by a Congressional oversight agency said while the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has made strides in improving its internal...

September 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has threatened to go into court to bid for an additional $900 million in Delphi Corp. assets because...

September 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has threatened to go into court to bid for an additional $900 million in Delphi Corp. assets because...

September 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study indicates that some of the views held by activist institutional investors are not necessarily the same as those of the...

September 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New data shows higher education costs were up 3.6% in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, a 20-basis point rise above the...

September 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fifty-three percent of Americans over age 60 say today's economic conditions are worse than those they have experienced in the past.

September 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 75% of senior finance executives across the United States and Canada said they plan to focus on reducing risk in their...

September 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Board of Trustees for the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System has announced the selection of six new program managers to expand...

September 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recent regulatory changes are creating some new synergies between equity awards and non-qualified deferred compensation programs.

September 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has added a new plank to its investment policy calling for a consideration of public health...

September 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers believe changes to current pension accounting standards are necessary, but most are not in favor of the changes proposed in the International...

September 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Munder Capital Management, an institutional money management firm, has announced plans to exit the money market mutual fund business.

September 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Conference Board study of data from the largest 1,000 U.S. companies found institutional investors have substantially increased their equity holdings to...

August 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some Vanguard fund shareholders have filed suit against the mutual fund giant, claiming that fund managers invested in illegal gambling businesses.

August 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - They've been slow to catch on in 401(k) plans, but a new report says that exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are a potential threat...

August 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In addition to an increase in the implementation of liability-driven investing (LDI) strategies by pension plans, the results of an SEI Global Quick...

August 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More attorneys have been accused by New York state officials of improperly receiving retirement system benefits when they were not employees of the...

August 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday voted to publish for public comment a proposed Roadmap that could lead to the use...

August 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores has agreed to pay a former executive $6.75 million to settle a retirement benefits dispute sparked when the company...

August 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Putnam Investments compilation of historical market data shows it may well be worth it for investors to resist the temptation of...