Administration

March 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If your email has been as plagued with stock "tips" as mine, you'll be happy to know that the Securities and Exchange Commission...

March 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Houston has blessed a $72.5 million settlement between Arthur Andersen L.L.P. and investors who charged that the now-defunct accounting...

December 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SimpleTech Inc. and Federal Trust Corporation have each approved the accelerated vesting of outstanding stock options to reduce compensation expenses that must be...

December 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funding deficit for the British pension funds of HSBC is now about half of its former size with the bank pumping in...

October 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California's public pension funds announced they will receive over $250 million in a settlement of a lawsuit against former WorldCom executives and several...

September 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The head of the Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA), who has served as US Airways Group chair since investing in the troubled airline...

September 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Changing tax laws may have driven out many large public companies from having employee stock ownership plans, but the surviving plans are holding...

March 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of Maryland lawmakers and Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown are pushing for the legislature to pass a measure that would force the...

March 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A rebellion against an accounting rule requiring government agencies to determine the cost of their accrued health and other benefits to retirees is...

September 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A private auditor from KPMG informed the San Diego City Council that the much delayed 2003 financial audit of San Diego's public pension...

August 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has pulled back in-house responsibility for the remainder of its international equity index assets under management,...

March 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Ohio reached a $144 million settlement with Time Warner Inc. over charges that state retirement funds were defrauded when the...

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi has hammered out a settlement with the three remaining former WorldCom executives in the civil suit over...

March 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Kentucky Senate approved a plan on Tuesday that calls for the state to take on more than $800 million in pension debt...

March 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The St. Louis law firm that made national news by filing a batch of lawsuits over "excessive" retirement plan fees has now turned...

March 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -A federal judge has dismissed fraud charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against three former officials of Putnam Fiduciary Trust Company (PFTC)...

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Research by Moody's Investors Service found that companies that pay their CEOs greater than expected for the company's size, past performance, and other...

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Baby boomers will not be able to count on an inheritance to supplement their retirement income, according to a recent study from the...

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has so far received 235 letters in response to its proposals, which includes forcing companies to put...

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Michaels Stores Inc. has said it understated compensation expenses by as much as $60 million between 1999 and 2001 due to backdating stock...