Administration

June 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts city of Methuen could soon face a court order if it does not liquidate its pension fund assets into cash to...

June 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The bill pending before the Pennsylvania state House would give the state Treasurer and two state public pension funds about 18 months to...

June 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Giving employers 20 years instead of 10 to bring their pension plans up to full funded status would allow U.K. companies to cut...

June 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fred Alger Management, Inc. has announced several changes to its mutual fund lineups, including the consolidation of all of the open-end mutual funds...

June 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Texas state judge has told lawyers in a legal battle between the Lone Star state's public pension system and Putnam Investments over...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The law firm of Stember Feinstein Doyle & Payne, LLC announced it is investigating conduct causing losses to the Fifth Third Bancorp Master...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust Bank, FSB announced it will acquire Lakepoint Investment Partners LLC of Cleveland, Ohio, an investment management firm serving individual investors, corporations,...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Texas Governor Rick Perry has ousted the chairman of the Texas Pension Review Board and replaced him with an Amarillo financial adviser.

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest issue of Executive Compensation Trends from Equilar reveals that from 2006 to 2007, the median value of total stock holdings and...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts authorities sued two subsidiaries of Swiss bank UBS AG with fraud on Thursday, accusing them of misleading investors about the safety of...

June 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In testimony to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, William F. Quinn, chairman of the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit...

June 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forward Management, LLC announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of the San Francisco-based retail division of Berkeley Capital...

June 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - During 2007 alternative assets managed on behalf of pension funds by the world's largest 99 investment managers grew by 40% to $822 billion...

June 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit seeking class action status on behalf of shareholders was filed Thursday against Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., alleging the conduct of Lehman...

June 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The law firms Milberg LLC and Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif LLP separately announced they are investigating possible Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

June 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The $38 billion Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois (TRS) will make commitments of between $800 million and $1.2 billion to...

June 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were arrested Thursday and indicted on conspiracy and fraud counts.

June 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than one in three (35%) chief financial officers (CFOs) interviewed cited heavy workloads as the number-one workplace concern for their financial teams.

June 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Managing partners of two upstate New York law firms announced Wednesday they have settled with Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo in his probe...

June 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Only 3% of participants with international operations in a survey by Towers Perrin have purchased separate Directors and Officers (D&O) liability insurance policies...