Administration

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 9, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The clients of equity research firm Gradient Analytics, Inc. will now have access to its Backdating Risk Assessment List, which includes 532 companies...

January 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com - The European Commission announced Tuesday that it was taking Sweden to the European Court of Justice because it taxes payments to foreign pensions...

January 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension risk in some European Union countries might sway companies' decisions on where to set up shop, according to a recent analysis by...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a paper prepared for the annual conference of the Retirement Research Consortium (RRC) earlier this month, John Shoven and Sita Slavov analyze...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the insistence of San Diego pension fund officials that internal fund documents are protected by attorney-client privilege, a federal judge has ordered...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The outsourcing industry in India has started a project to compile work histories of its workers in an effort to combat data fraud.

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A review committee has placed part of the blame for the deficit at a Swiss teachers pension fund on the fund's consultant who...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service is asking a bankruptcy court to determine that millions of dollars in securities and notes United Airlines plans to...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investment has joined forces with four partners in a sweeping new effort to create an electronic trading network seeking as much as...

August 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge fund assets, now at $1 trillion, will at least double by 2009, quadruple to $4 trillion by 2013 and sextuple to $6...

July 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An influential UK think tank now asserts that the country's retirement age should be bumped up to 67 by 2030 to solve the...

July 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Montana's two largest retirement systems, the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) and the Teachers Retirement System (TRS), face a potential deficit of $1.2...

July 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new state commission looking into Vermont's policy toward one of its public retirement plans was scheduled to have its maiden meeting Monday.

July 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) reacted to the stock options backdating controversy with a lawsuit over the issue against UnitedHealth Group...

July 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many TIAA-CREF participants want their social values to be reflected in their investments, according to a new survey.

July 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BISYS announced Monday that it was conducting settlement discussions with staff members of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about the agency's...

July 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) plans to report a widening shortfall to the state's Legislative Audit Committee this week.

June 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two pension funds have worked out a $311 million settlement agreement with Williams Companies concerning stock manipulation allegations.

June 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two more large US pension funds filed suits against companies that are tied up in the mounting investigation over stock option backdating.