Administration

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An investigation of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation regarding bribery for investment contracts has expanded to include the state's five public pension...

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...

June 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Garden State law enforcement union has sued the state to force lawmakers to pay for years of shortchanging the officers' retirement system.

March 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has proposed using money from privatizing the Illinois lottery to help struggling pension systems.

May 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mirroring ongoing US discussions over proposed defined benefit pension reforms, the Canadian government has kicked off a review of that country's pension system...

May 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois officials have worked out a two-year plan to take hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarked pension funding and use it to...

May 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the nation's insurer of private-sector pension plans, has suffered "unprecedented" losses in the last five years, according...

May 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Equity market makers did a better job at trade execution that their fully electronic competitors, a trade execution study of more than 7,000...

March 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal trial of five former San Diego pension officials came to a screeching halt last week.

March 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) said it would have to adjust its earnings by an estimated $250 million because of stock options...

March 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to the results of a national survey, out of 114 million people in the U.S. who work in the private sector, 17.5%...

April 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Arthur Andersen has paid $65 million to settle allegations that it should have found out about the massive fraud at WorldCom.

April 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With bond yields low and stocks volatile, more and more pension funds are turning to the world currency market in a continuing search...

March 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study from the National Association for Variable Annuities (NAVA) assesses the value annuities provide when held in qualified retirement plans.

March 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two days after a major Wall Street selloff, a computer network outage at The Vanguard Group left retirement plan and other customers unable...

February 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BlackRock Inc. and Merrill Lynch have announced an agreement to merge Merrill Lynch Investment Management (MLIM) with BlackRock to form a new independent...

February 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A San Diego Superior Court judge said in a tentative ruling that city attorney Michael Aguirre can not replace the legal counsel for...

March 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK consumer goods company Unilever plans to shut its DB scheme to new employees and force current plan participants to pay higher contributions...