Administration

February 15, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The city of Los Angeles will pull out $27 million in retirement fund investments from companies with business ties to Sudan in an...

February 14, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Portland, Oregon firm been tapped as the new investment consultant for the Hawaii Employees' Retirement System (ERS), replacing Callan Associates after Callan's...

February 13, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp (PBGC) announced it has sold its 4.87 million shares of stock in US Airways Group, which it gained...

February 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Funding reform has propelled some defined benefit plans to consider investment strategies otherwise left mostly untapped by corporate plans, according to a recent...

February 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The chief investment officer for Texas' Teacher Retirement System is pushing for a more aggressive investment strategy that involves funneling more of its...

February 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to a recent survey, algorithmic trading has become a standard practice within the securities industry with 72% of investment managers responding that...

October 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - DaimlerChrysler AG said it has received a request from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for information about its pension accounting.

October 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD announced today that it has ordered Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. of Minneapolis, formerly American Express Financial Advisors, to pay a fine of...

October 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Redwood City, Calif.-based ABD Insurance & Financial Services and Cleveland-based CBIZ Benefits & Insurance Services Inc. said they received subpoenas from New York...

September 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York City stockbroker on Thursday became the latest to be charged in New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's investigation of...

September 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If ruling Social Democrats are returned to office in Swedish elections this weekend, pension officials in that country will be prohibited from supporting...

September 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A dozen Oregon municipalities participated in a recent $186 million bond sale that cut their interest rate on their pension debt from 8%...

September 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) in S corporations end up more richly funding workers' retirement plans than workplace K plans, according to a...

September 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey found that many top companies are creating a new leadership position, lead director, to share duties with the chairman of...

February 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two pension funds are expected to file suit in Alaska state court in an effort to get BP Plc to freeze a more...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Consolidation continued in the US retirement plan recordkeeping field with word that Federated Investors was selling its recordkeeping business to Great West.

August 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The calendar may say 2006, but it looks like 2005 is a year that Hewitt Associates would just as soon forget.

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Mellon Analytical Solutions U.S. Master Trust Universe of 434 corporate, foundation, endowment, public, Taft-Hartley and health care funds turned in a 5.81%...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Martin Druffner, a former Prudential Securities broker, has been charged with four counts of wire fraud and four counts of securities fraud for...

August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Union Network International, has passed a resolution calling for fund companies that manage union pension assets to sell shares of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.