Administration

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 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets in the 11 largest pension markets doubled to $23.2 trillion over the last decade, growing at a compound annual rate of 7.5%,...

January 24, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Buyout funds and venture capital funds posted returns of more than 25% and 15.6% in 2006, respectively, according to the January private equity...

The focus brought to defined benefit plan funding by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 and new accounting requirements by the Financial Accounting Standards Board is leading DB...

January 23, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In its latest exam of the defined benefit landscape, Towers Perrin has estimated the assets of defined benefit pension plans offered by Fortune...

Panel members at PLANSPONSOR's DB Summit in Washington, D.C. last month were in agreement that new pension accounting rules hatched by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and...

January 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The risks large companies are facing from pension liabilities are not as great a threat to their financial stability as they once were...

January 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The inaugural pension fund tracking system unveiled Monday by UBS Global Asset Management shows a dramatic improvement in pension plan funding ratios in...

January 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The publisher of a best-selling video game has revealed that it had a significant number of backdated stock option grants between April 1997...

January 19, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California pension plan that lost $175 million in the celebrated collapse of Amaranth Advisors has recouped just over a quarter of its...

January 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fund manager Fred Alger Management Inc., has agreed to a $45 million settlement of charges it engaged in a "massive" market timing scheme...

January 17, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new paper released by JPMorgan Asset Management (JPMAM) suggests that pension plans should adopt a risk management approach similar to the one...

January 12, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Florida pension plan has sued ING Group in federal court claiming that the financial services firm charged the plan higher fees to...

January 11, 2007(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Genworth Financial has decided to sell its US employee group benefits business for $650 million to Canadian insurer Sun Life Financial, giving Sun Life...

January 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report about the city of San Diego's municipal pension mess examined the possibility of offering a defined contribution instead of a...

January 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined benefit pension schemes in the UK will die out by 2012, according to a Towers Perrin report on its annual UK Corporate...

January 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The former chief of Putnam Investments has agreed to a $75,000 settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), putting an end to...

January 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - WH Smith, a UK newspapers, books, and stationary retailer, said Wednesday it will end final salary accruals to its defined benefit scheme for...

October 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Missouri State Employees' Retirement System (MOSERS) has hired two firms that provide information about businesses with potential links to terrorism.

January 10, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Wednesday it had settled with William Sorin, former general counsel for Comverse Technology, on civil...