Administration

May 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Treasury Department officials are pondering the potential risks that may be posed to markets or financial institutions by hedge funds' recent explosive...

May 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has announced that it has broadened the team and resources devoted to consultants and financial professionals in the large...

April 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an important development in the continuing debate over post-Enron-WorldCom anti-fraud laws, securities regulators have approved a new framework that will ease auditing...

April 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York State United Teachers retirement plan breached its fiduciary duty by taking millions of dollars from the ING Life Insurance and...

May 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Trustees of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) voted to bar investments in nine multinational corporations doing business with the Sudanese government.

April 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A North Carolina state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would forgive $1.4 million in pension benefit overpayments to nine widows and one...

April 4, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Morgan Stanley & Co. employee was arrested by federal prosecutors Wednesday for allegedly lifting information from the brokerage firm's computers about...

March 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The highest court in New York state has ruled that Northwest Airlines breached its agreements with two unions by failing to buy back...

April 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At the heart of the recently announced mega-deal in which the Chicago Tribune newspaper company will go private is the company's employee stock...

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CEO of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) is calling for benefit cuts and an increase in member contributions to reduce the...

April 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has $133 million in its coffers belonging to 32,000 people owed pension benefits from terminated plans who the...

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - WCI Steel has agreed to give noteholders a majority stake and pay as much as $25 million to preserve its pension plan under...

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - England's Prime Minister Tony Blair said the government could not take on a £15 billion pension commitment suggested by a report from Parliamentary...

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal and market regulators have hit Bear Stearns with a $250 million penalty for market timing and late trading of mutual funds.

March 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not only may hedge fund investors have to make do with lower returns in coming months, but the systemic risk of the hedge...

March 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former employees of General Motors Corp. (GM) are suing the giant automaker over charges that the company improperly invested 401(k) assets in company...

March 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America Corp. ran afoul of US tax laws in 1998 and 1999 by permitting workers to move assets from the company's...

March 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rules requiring companies to capture the value of employee stock options in financial reports may not be as evil as some have worried,...

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) officials reported this week that restrictions placed on investments in emerging markets have caused the system to...

April 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate pension plans saw their financial health significantly improved in 2006 with the funding ratio jumping from 93% to 101% and a $83.5...