November 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation (NQDC) plans continue to be widely utilized and more employers are turning to corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) to informally fund...
June 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Labor unions representing state employees are protesting the state's new pension plan that is scheduled to go into effect July 1, saying that...
November 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in California has dismissed - with prejudice - a class action civil suit against a Corona, California energy drink company...
November 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Jacksonville (Florida) Police and Fire Pension Fund trustees have terminated their contract with Merrill Lynch Consulting Services in the wake of a federal...
May 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UnitedHealth Group has been hit with another shareholder lawsuit - this time filed by two pension funds - over allegations of stock option...
November 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a bill mandating that the state stop investing in companies supporting the Sudanese government now law, Massachusetts' state pension fund will divest...
November 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Verizon Communications Inc. Board of Directors has adopted a rule calling for an annual shareholder advisory vote on its executive compensation policies.
March 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has issued a white paper addressing the reason state and local governments are held to different accounting...
March 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments has reported that a laptop computer containing personal information on 196,000 Hewlett-Packard Co. retirement plan participants has been stolen.
March 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The recent move by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require broad-brush executive compensation disclosures has drawn wide support in a...
February 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research shows that the smoking ban to be implemented in the UK will increase pension deficits of its largest companies by billions...
February 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A strike by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) over pension changes was averted when the province agreed to review legislation that...
February 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is now investigating whether Aloha Airlines used employees' pension money to repay bank loans.
February 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US states' budgetary stress is rising due to increasing pension fund contribution demands at a time when costs are also escalating in other...
November 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just hours after the chairman of Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) called for the resignations of five independent board members - he got them.
November 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) -State Street Corp. has been hit with two more lawsuits over its now controversial stewardship of fixed income funds marketed as following conservative trading...
November 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Another pension fund has filed suit against State Street for "investing purportedly conservative, risk-averse bond funds in high risk mortgage backed securities and...
January 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three quarters of institutional investors recently polled say environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors can make a difference in how well an...