Administration

July 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Half of chief financial officers (CFOs) surveyed said the most important communications skill for accounting and finance professionals is relating well to their...

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Credit Suisse and Instinet Europe, the broker that is majority-owned by Nomura of Japan, have agreed to allow mutual access to each other's...

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Swiss bank UBS AG suspended the firm's head of fixed income in the U.S. and global head of municipal securities, David Shulman, according...

July 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Saying it has a fiduciary duty to workers and retirees to diversify their investments, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) released a...

July 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vanguard announced the appointment of new portfolio managers to the AllianceBernstein L.P. portions of the $4.8 billion Vanguard U.S. Growth Fund and the...

July 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has filed a lawsuit against UBS AG over its role in the sale of auction-rate securities, Bloomberg...

July 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - eSecLending, a full-service provider and administrator of customized securities lending programs, has established Securities Finance Global Advisors (SFGA), a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA),...

July 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The former chief technology strategist for JPMorgan Chase & Co and a partner are seeking institutional investors for their technology-focused hedge fund, Reuters...

July 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest Cerulli Edge U.S. Asset Management Edition suggests that while the demand for mutual funds remains strong, other solutions are gaining ground.

July 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has issued for comment a proposed Technical Bulletin, "Determining the Annual Required Contribution for Postemployment Benefits."

July 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study of the institutional fixed income space has found that investors are making "fundamental changes" to their strategies because of the...

July 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PSA Insurance & Financial Services announced the acquisition of the Baltimore office of Alliance Benefit Group Mid-Atlantic (ABG).

July 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's two largest public pension funds lost money during their last fiscal year - but it could have been worse.

July 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Class action law firm Keller Rohrback has announced it has kicked off an investigation of allegations that IndyMac Bancorp executives breached their fiduciary...

July 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A review by state of Illinois officials has given the Chicago Transit Authority approval to sell bonds to provide funding for the CTA...

July 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under a bill signed into law by New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, the state retirement system board of trustees and the judicial retirement...

July 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal authorities disclosed in a document filed in federal court in Detroit that they have evidence of a kickback scheme involving a Michigan...

July 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The results of Greenwich Associates' 2008 U.S. Equity Research study suggest institutional investors are abandoning traditional soft dollars in favor of formal commission-sharing...

July 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Research from the Diversified Services Group (DSG) indicates defined contribution plan service providers are largely unsuccessful at retaining participant assets after retirement.

July 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets in New Jersey's state pension fund dropped by 3.1% during the recently completed fiscal year, pension officials reported.