Administration

February 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against two former executives at Engineered Support Systems Inc., accusing them of participating in...

May 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Missouri State Treasurer Sarah Steelman has launched a salvo at Missouri's state public retirement fund, demanding that the fund stop investing in companies...

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Corporation announced Monday that it has agreed to buy Investors Financial Services Corporation - also a Boston-based financial services provider -...

May 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A law firm has concluded in a report released Wednesday that San Diego's pension board probably violated California's conflict of interest law in...

April 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two investment firms have paid an Ohio state pension plan $124,000 for illegally "wining and dining" pension fund trustees.

April 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills announced that the Empire State's Insurance Department would hire an auditor...

March 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In spite of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) recent proposal requiring better disclosure of executive pay programs, most US companies are not...

March 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Marsh & McLennan Cos. has settled an investigation by California into its commission practices.

March 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new law taking effect April 1 will raise the deposit insurance coverage on retirement accounts held at banks or savings institutions from...

February 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the decision to outsource the management of pension assets is often associated with trimming costs, plan sponsors at a recent panel discussion...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials with the Connecticut comptroller's office say they have not been able to completely change over the administration of state employees' retirement plans...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (ACS), the parent company of Buck Consultants LLC, is suing two former executives it claims pursued deals with venture...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Idaho state legislature is considering a measure that could force the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI) to withdraw $41 million...

February 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD announced today that it has fined Diversified Investors Securities Corp. of Purchase, New York, $1.3 million for facilitating impermissible market timing by...

February 1, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As anticipated, Putnam Investments has announced that it will be acquired from Marsh & McLennan Companies by Great-West Lifeco Inc., a subsidiary of...

January 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A special committee's conclusions after an internal investigation at Delta Petroleum cleared the company of accusations that it had engaged in stock options...

January 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal securities regulators have reportedly approved a market-based employee stock option valuation system for the first time.

January 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Illinois Teachers' Retirement System plans to throw some of its assets into hedge funds as part of its investment strategy shuffle meant...

January 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom Corp. revealed it will take a whopping $2.22 billion charge to properly account for misdated stock option grants over...

January 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies are increasingly investing in and moving operations to emerging markets as a way to increase their revenues and drive down costs, according...