Administration

February 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Merrill Lynch & Co. is in the advanced stages of talks to acquire a large minority share of money management firm BlackRock Inc,...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Microtune Inc. has announced that the Audit Committee of its Board of Directors found during an internal investigation that, prior to August 2003,...

Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin is looking into whether hedge funds have increased their trading fees to compensate banks for office space they lease as a temporary...

February 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Pension Plan has filed suit against insurance giant American International Group in an ongoing...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of securities fraud class actions filed in 2006 was the lowest ever recorded in a calendar year since the adoption of...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The St. Louis-based law firm of Schlichter Bogard & Denton has filed another 401(k) fee lawsuit - this one against plan sponsor ABB...

January 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK pension plan deficits among FTSE 350 companies dropped by more than a third (38%) in 2006, according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting.

January 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two prominent investment firms have each agreed to pay a $40 million fine to settle US Securities and Exchange Commission charges that they...

January 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Diego pension fiasco seems headed to the courts, with the City Attorney and a pension system attorney threatening legal action against...

January 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mortgage giant Fannie Mae is fighting back against a Michigan county pension fund trying to block payouts to Fannie Mae executives with a...

January 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Newton Capital Management Limited, the London-based asset management subsidiary of Mellon Financial will make its investment strategies available to US institutional investors in...

January 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The AFL-CIO is pushing for directors at six insurance companies to investigate the firms' roles in allegations of bid-rigging and then tell shareholders...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Apple Computer Inc. said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the company's CEO Steve Jobs did know about,...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee has announced James Michael Foley, former Vice President of Sales for UnumProvident Corporation, pled...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Marsh & McLennan has agreed to sell its money-management unit for $3.9 billion to holding company Power Corp. of Canada, sources told the...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Evergreen Investments, a unit of Wachovia Corporation, agreed to pay a $4.2 million civil penalty to settle National Association of Securities Dealers allegations...

December 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Electric Co. has agreed to a request by a group of shareholders to go beyond regulatory requirements and disclose any business ties...

December 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre has asked a California judge to rethink his order severely constricting Aguirre's ability to recover improperly granted...

December 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research from Watson Wyatt shows the combined retirement fund shortfall of firms in the FTSE 100 fell to £39.9 billion at the...

December 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ten private equity firms have teamed up to educate policymakers in Washington, DC about their business.