Administration

January 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission has fined Heartland Advisors Inc. $3.9 million for mispricing two municipal bond funds.

January 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Carole D. Argo, former chief financial officer at SafeNet, maker of computer network security products, was sentenced Monday to six months in prison...

January 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under an actuarial change calling for member government agencies of the Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS) to pre-fund their retiree cost-of-living increases, the...

January 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A report from the National Association of Counties (NACo) provides brief overviews on the major issues surrounding Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) statement...

January 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many large U.S. companies do not plan to disclose performance goals for their executive pay programs in their 2008 proxy statement, despite Securities...

January 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With Ohio's public pension fund suffering losses of up to $27.2 million from subprime mortgage-related investments, the state of Ohio has accused mortgage...

January 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The former chief executive of job Web site Monster Worldwide has admitted to stock options backdating charges, but escaped a prison sentence because...

January 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, state lawmakers, the Jewish Community Relations Council, and the Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) of Colorado announced a new...

January 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With its defined benefit pension plan enjoying a 135% funded status, oil giant BP has announced it will not put any additional money...

January 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a joint letter to Nancy M. Morris, Secretary of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), groups representing public sector investors asked...

January 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study of the private equity market finds that securitization - bundled funds of publicly traded private equity firms - is changing...

January 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Accusations of mismanagement have been leveled against Merrill Lynch by government clients in a second state, the Wall Street Journal reported.

January 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Zurich Financial Services Group has announced the launch of a global initiative focused on the development of products and services addressing the evolving...

January 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two business groups have asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) not to reinstate a Web tool aimed at helping investors identify...

January 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Most companies that have adopted pension accounting reform rules have seen a reduction in assets, an increase in liabilities, and a decline in shareholders'...

January 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Local prosecutors in Milwaukee say they plan to consult with the Wisconsin Attorney General's Office in deciding how to proceed with a probe...

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canadian employers need safe harbor provisions similar to what their U.S. counterparts have so Canadian executives can get more active in beefing up...

January 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest legal battle in the lawsuit over the Principal Financial Group's 401(k) revenue sharing arrangements centers around whether a federal judge in...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A $2 billion pension bond sale by the state of Connecticut, intended to help close the $6.9 billion funding shortfall in the state's...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewitt Associates announced on Wednesday that it is selling its Cyborg business, a payroll and HR software services vendor acquired in 2003, to...