Administration

March 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rising oil prices and Asian countries' growing trade surpluses helped drive an 18% increase in sovereign wealth funds to $3.3 billion in 2007,...

March 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two Michigan pension funds may try to block the pending takeover of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan Chase because the $10-per-share price being offered...

March 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The path to business success for retirement plan advisers is paved with good relationships.

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The vast majority of U.S. companies paid CEOs who departed in 2007 the same compensation disclosed in their 2007 proxy disclosures and provided...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders of two Fidelity Investments funds rejected a proposal by activists trying to block mutual-fund investments that may be linked to places like...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report shows local governments in New Jersey are slated to pay more than $1.2 billion toward the retirement plans of their...

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Minneapolis has granted class-action status to a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group Inc. over stock options backdating.

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York City comptroller William Thompson said he will investigate whether the failure of Bear Stearns & Co was due to miscalculation or...

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The law firm of Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP said it is seeking class-action status for a case alleging that Orlando-based...

March 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Segal Company's latest survey of multiemployer plans finds a continued shoring up of their finances.

March 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fees awarded to lawyers representing retirees who sued the state of South Carolina over contributions required for the Teacher and Employee Retention Incentive...

March 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against an Oak Brook, Illinois, company and two executives accused of improperly using qualified plan...

March 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In its 2007 Investment Management Compensation Survey, Callan Associates found that increases in variable components of pay (cash bonus, commissions, profit distributions and...

March 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) will expand its private equity manager program - and its relationship with Invesco.

March 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US. Department of Labor (DoL) has settled a dispute with Hewitt Associates with an agreement for Hewitt and the Enron Creditors Recovery...

March 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It didn't take long for the news from Bear Stearns to draw the attention of the plaintiffs' bar.

March 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Chicago Public Schools system is charging it was unconstitutionally required to maintain certain pension funding levels despite a shortfall in state funding.

March 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under a pension reform bill designed to address a funding shortfall, New Hampshire police officers and firefighters would have to work five additional...

March 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kern County, California is requesting proposals from 457 Deferred Compensation plan providers for administration and recordkeeping services for County employees and retirees.

March 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey of investment practices at public pension plans found that about half invest or plan to invest in alternative asset classes in...