Administration

July 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has added a two-phase project to its agenda designed to converge its accounting standards for pensions to...

July 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sun Life Financial Inc. signed a deal to distribute corporate pension policies through one of China's state-owned banks, giving the insurer a foothold...

July 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials at the Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) have revealed a more optimistic forecast of the system's state and school division, which...

July 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts Senate last week passed legislation that will force the investment management board for the state's pension assets to divest nearly $70...

July 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Research published by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) indicates U.K. pension scheme trustees believe actuaries have contributed to the huge deficits faced by...

June 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Russell Investment Group has released a preliminary list of companies that will join or leave the broad-market Russell 3000 Index when it reconstitutes...

May 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal prosecutors in New York are prying into potential stock options abuses by at least six US companies.

May 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Initiatives sweeping through the pension landscape to dump investments in companies doing business in Sudan come at a cost - $1.2 million for...

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors in one U.S. hedge fund have been blocked from pulling out their money while another fund has been completely closed - both...

May 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Maryland research company reported in a new study that 17 of 100 companies examined were deemed "at risk" for having back dated...

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors in one U.S. hedge fund have been blocked from pulling out their money while another fund has been completely closed - both...

May 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In response to the UK Pensions Regulator's urgings for pension trustees to improve their understanding and knowledge of the plans they manage, Bayer...

May 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Indiana Public Employees Retirement Fund (PERF), rocked several years ago by a series of scandals that put three former workers in jail,...

May 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Bank of America (BoA) Corp. broker Theodore Sihpol may have helped a hedge fund execute trades after market hours, but he never...

May 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Invesmart said Tuesday that its Retirement Portfolio Cost Barometer indicates that a "reasonable standard" for annual plan participant fees is 58 bps -...

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dell notified regulators Monday that it would have to delay the filing of its 401(k) plan financial statement as it waits for the...

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Bank N.A. has agreed to purchase ABN AMRO's 50% share in ABN AMRO Mellon Global Securities Services B.V., provider of global custody...

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) is asking for input from users of governmental pension financial statements about the effectiveness of accounting standards.

May 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Democrats in the Illinois state legislature on Sunday rallied behind a budget plan that slashes pension payments in favor of funding other state...

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California appeals court rejected the state's proposal to float $525 million in bonds to help cover pension obligations, according to the Sacramento...