Administration

April 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. announced that it has agreed to acquire Invesmart, Inc. and all of its subsidiaries for approximately $85 million.

April 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Social, environmental and corporate governance shareholder resolutions are up in 2006 from 2005, according to the Social Investment Forum (SIF).

January 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The annual The Cerulli Edge - U.S. Asset Management Edition subscriber survey found financial services firms rank the ability to acquire and retain...

January 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - There is little doubt, moving into the first quarter of 2008, that plan sponsors choosing investment options will continue to be faced with...

April 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Diego City Council, subject to a second reading next month, approved a plan to use funds from tobacco settlements to borrow...

January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chicago-based Hub International Limited, an insurance brokerage, announced Hub International of California Insurance Services, Inc. has acquired employee benefits consultant JRN Benefits.

January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) has issued its view that the use of pension plan assets by plan fiduciaries...

January 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Increasing numbers of accounting and finance workers ended 2007 with glum looks on their faces as their confidence continued dropping, according to new...

January 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) is calling for the U.K. government to allow employers a new option for their pension schemes to...

January 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Daniel Calugar, former head trader and owner of Securities Brokerage, Inc. was arrested and convicted for a felony violation of New York's Martin...

One of the more intriguing panels at PLANSPONSOR's 2007 DBSummit dealt with practical solutions for managing pension plan risk.

Recent regulations have sparked the need for defined benefit plan sponsors to implement changes to plan administration and/or investment strategies and consider hiring or changing service providers.

Recent regulations have sparked the need for defined benefit plan sponsors to implement changes to plan administration and/or investment strategies and consider hiring or changing service providers.

December 5, 2007 (Washington, D.C.) - With a flawed defined benefit plan funding landscape behind us and following the setting of new funding rules with the passage of...

As defined benefit plan sponsors look for ways to increase funding and manage risk, 120/20 and 130/30 funds are increasingly being touted as useful investment strategies.

Funding rule changes enacted with the passage of the Pension Protection Act (PPA) in 2006 and accounting rule changes implemented with Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) statement 158...

January 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a wary eye cast at what many saw as skimpy returns, many investors fled from hedge funds in 2005 and took hundreds...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Christopher Cox has launched the first-ever online tool that enables investors to see what 500 of the...

December 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - New regulatory guidance from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) allows public companies to keep using a simplified method to estimate their...

December 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The board of the city of San Diego City Employees' Retirement System (SDCERS) has adopted a 14-point plan negotiated with the Internal Revenue...