Administration

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge fund assets increased by $462 billion in 2007 to $1.997 trillion - an increase of 30% for the year - according to...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors who add a variable annuity with a lifetime guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit (GMWB) to a stock and bond retirement portfolio can enjoy...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems was slapped with a $15 million fine and a 21-month jail term for offenses relating...

January 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the past, North Carolina state officials have at times diverted pension fund contributions to cover financial crises in other areas, but a...

January 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that defrauded shareholders should not necessarily be allowed to sue advisers, lawyers, accountants, and vendors that serve...

January 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Causing a stir among Wall Street pundits, the state of New Jersey's $80-billion pension plan will take equity positions in both Citigroup and...

January 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former AXA Equitable Life Insurance investment adviser has pled guilty to stealing $1.7 million from Colorado public school teachers.

January 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre, a consistent and vocal critic of the city's pension policies leading to its current pension crisis, is...

January 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently concluded the lack of significant adverse effect of concentration in the current public company audit market and...

January 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The West Virginia Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling over the merger of the state's two retirement systems covering teachers,...

January 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three Massachusetts pension funds have moved money from a State Street cash account with past exposure to subprime mortgage investments to a fund...

January 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual fund net sales will trend up by 2% annually, but investors will have to look elsewhere for the real barnburner growth, according...

January 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Specialist asset manager GAM has announced Julius Baer Bank's Alternative Risk Trading (ART) team has joined the firm.

January 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Texas state retirement funds for teachers and public employees have discovered that a small percentage of their holdings are invested in Sudan-linked...

January 9, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Motors Corp. has agreed to pay about $39 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over company stock investments of retirement funds, people...

July 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) earned a 12.3% return on investments for the one-year period ended June 30, 2006, marking a...

January 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The vast majority of parents would push off retirement - at least briefly - to ensure that their kids could attend the college...

May 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's top advisors has offered to give up his $90,000 a year post to keep his spot on...

May 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The probe into firms illegally awarding stock options to executives at artificially low prices is the biggest corporate wrongdoing investigation since the probe...

May 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company announced that Hellman & Friedman LLC, a private equity firm, together with members of Gartmore Investment Management PLC's senior...