Administration

February 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) and ESOP-like plans saw a significant increase in number and size in 2007 compared to a year earlier,...

February 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a February 13 meeting the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) presented proposals for amending Statement No. 132 Employers' Disclosures about Pensions and...

February 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Citigroup has suspended redemptions in CSO Partners, a fund specializing in corporate debt, after investors tried to redeem more than 30% of the...

February 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The West Virginia House of Delegates has proposed a measure offering $78 million to help teachers and school service personnel leave the 401(k)-style...

February 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cincinnati-based financial consulting firm, CHALK Advisory Board, Inc., has merged with registered investment advisory firm, Fiduciary Consulting Group, Inc.

February 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As the use of target-date and target-maturity funds becomes increasingly popular, discussions about how best to structure and benchmark these funds has become...

February 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The State of Michigan public pension fund has sued Tyco International over allegations a massive stock fraud at the company led to a...

February 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has announced its selection of four investment management firms to construct, manage and monitor a fund...

February 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Continuing public pressure on university endowments to help worthy students fund their educations is likely to cause the endowment money managers to scale...

February 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) wants Hewitt Associates to be held in civil contempt for its failure to follow a court-approved disbursement...

February 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Congressman Earl Pomeroy has repeated his call for the U.S. Treasury Department to reverse course on the issue of defined benefit pension...

July 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has announced an agreement to acquire WM Advisors, manager of the WM Group of Funds.

June 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A long-rumored merger was confirmed Monday when Great-West Lifeco Inc. announced that its US subsidiary Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company has agreed...

June 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UnitedHealth Group Inc. is seeking a protective order to block a request by Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch for documents relating to its...

February 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the "typical" U.S. pension plan declined 3.3 percentage points on a "reporting basis" in January.

February 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management (PRIM) board on Tuesday fired Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) from a $1.2-billion equity mandate.

May 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Time Warner Inc., its America Online (AOL) subsidiary and others have agreed to pay $23 million to settle a Pennsylvania lawsuit.

May 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Kentucky Retirement Systems is investigating its purchase of land for $725,000 from someone who paid $450,000 for it less than two months...

April 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Fort Worth, Texas City Council is demanding a thorough review of the city's pension fund to determine whether lapses in oversight have...

February 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawsuits against State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) over its money management decisions to put client funds in subprime mortgage-related vehicles continue to pile...