Administration

There are some very different assumptions underlying the construction of the new generation of asset allocation funds and they can make a big difference in how the funds...

June 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Last year 60% of companies made special pension contributions, above normal or statutory contributions, to help plug their scheme deficits, according to a...

Panel members at PLANSPONSOR's 2008 Future of Asset Allocated Funds Conference in Newport Beach, California, gave attendees perspective of the various glide paths of lifecycle funds, the strategies...

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Citing months of poor performance, Goldman Sachs announced it has stopped offering an investment account that AQR Capital Management created for the bank's...

April 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Massachusetts is considering ousting the board that governs one of its largest pension funds, in light of an investigation by...

April 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a union leading the charge, dissatisfied Pfizer Inc. shareholders came up short Thursday in trying to institute corporate governance reforms including holding...

April 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the typical U.S. pension plan saw a 0.2-percentage-point improvement in March, according to BNY Mellon Asset Management.

April 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers have delayed a vote on a bill to add a real estate fund to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), an addition that...

March 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Diego City Council has agreed to place two of Mayor Jerry Sander's campaign proposals on the November 7 ballot.

March 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boston-based private equity firm TA Associates will buy securities lending company eSecLending, currently majority-owned by London-based Old Mutual Plc, the companies announced.

March 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) is poised to make its first investments in home building in India and China.

March 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Historically low interest rates, stricter standards and rising pension costs are worsening an already difficult situation for pension plans, the Canadian federal pension...

March 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two executive benefits plan providers, Mullin Consulting and TBG Financial, have announced they are merging to form MullinTBG.

April 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New Jersey Education Association teachers union has lost its battle to force the state to make up for underfunding the Teachers Pension...

February 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study by Chicago-based law firm Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP reveals an unexpected number of US public companies are adopting tougher...

April 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CAPTRUST Financial Advisors, an independent retirement advisory firm, today has completed the acquisition of the retirement plan division of Birmingham, Alabama-based Capital Strategies...

February 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CEOs at high-performing companies saw large gains in the value of their unexercised stock options last year, while those at poor-performing companies saw...

February 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - GovernanceMetrics International (GMI), in producing its latest series of governance ratings for 3,400 global companies, found that change continues to take place at...

April 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension funding ratios fell 11% in the first quarter of 2008, according to the UBS Global Asset Management US Pension Fund Fitness Tracker.

April 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP) today noted a "particularly" well-timed study regarding the exercise behavior of employees with stock options.