February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) sale of UAL Corp. stock produced a $135 million boost for the UAL pension plans the agency...
February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lucent Technologies shareholders have approved a pair of nonbinding measures designed to pressure the company to tie the compensation of executives to the...
February 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), one the largest public pension funds in Canada, posted 12.1% gains in 2004, but is still...
January 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New Jersey Assembly has approved legislation that would ban state public pension funds from investing in companies that do business in Sudan.
January 28, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Diego's pension mess continued to simmer Thursday when the city's retirement board sued City Attorney Michael Aguirre to keep him from controlling...
March 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Diego County Employees Retirement Association (SDCERA) has sued Amaranth Advisors, LLC, three of its officers, and its former natural gas trader,...
March 29, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Driven by demographic trends and the development of products that address guaranteed income and principal protection, annuity assets are expected to swell nearly...
March 28, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The five Illinois state pension systems are underfunded by nearly 40%, according to new reports by Illinois Auditor General William Holland.
March 28, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new analysis of 2007 proxy statements from 100 large publicly-traded companies found nearly half chose not to disclose specific goals on which...
March 28, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned away challenges to an arbitration panel's $14 million award to three former Merrill Lynch brokers fired over allegations...
March 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Underfunding problems and a move to mark to market accounting continue to further push defined benefit plan sponsors to find "more holistic" strategies...
March 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit filed this week against Deutsche Investment Management Americas (DeAM) over DeAM's hiring of four senior investment managers alleges a tale of...
March 27, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As institutional investment in hedge funds increases, so the role of the prime broker (Wall Street firms that service hedge funds) has becoming...
March 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The new breed of hedge funds tend to be more volatile than their older and larger counterparts, but are generating greater monthly returns,...
March 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Watson Wyatt has settled a lawsuit relating to actuarial services, paying $110 million to the trustees of the Iron Workers, Local No. 25...
March 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thirty percent of UK pension funds reallocated more than 5% of their investment portfolio in 2006, with the property sector coming out as...
March 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lifecycle funds came out ahead of balanced funds, according to a recent comparison of the two by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, because the lifecycle...
March 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Annuity sales in the U.S. reached $236.2 billion in 2006, mainly due to retiring baby boomers seeking guaranteed income.