Administration

December 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has announced a settlement with Prudential Insurance Company of America relating to allegations of deceptive and...

December 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has denied a request from former Maryland pension fund manager Nathan Chapman Jr. to overturn his 2004 stock fraud...

December 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Home Depot Inc. said last week a review by outside counsel found, for certain stock option grants from 1981 through November 2000, the...

December 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Russian authorities accused International Business Machines (IBM) of conspiring with employees at the Russian Pension Fund in a pension kickback scheme.

December 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Nebraska Supreme Court has turned away a request to throw out a lower court ruling dismissing an Omaha attorney's lawsuit that claimed...

December 11, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A vote by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week is expected to start easing the accounting rules governing how closely...

October 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Though the typical Canadian pension fund is close to being fully funded, 40% of plan sponsors say the most pressing issue for their...

October 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Greenwich Associates report reveals that a substantial majority of Japanese financial institutions and pension funds plan to increase their allocations to alternative...

August 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - John Connelly, CEO of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), accused a New York Times columnist of an "accusatory agenda" toward ISS and disregarding facts...

August 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A report by the Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM) says that fewer Canadians will be covered by defined benefit pension plans and...

August 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California judge has ruled that lawyers representing the city of San Diego pension system can keep representing the fund, as its leaders...

December 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Running deficits among Canada's corporate defined benefit plans is not a threat to the country's financial system, but funding requirements for Canadian defined...

December 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JPMorgan Retirement Plan Services has filed a multi-count suit against former vice president of sales Paul Freeman, accusing him of lifting confidential client...

December 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Chicago business group has sounded major alarm bells about the state's ability to fund retirement and health coverage costs for state workers,...

July 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A memo between Sycamore Networks Inc. employees discusses how they could manipulate the dates of stock-option grants to issue them at lower prices...

July 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Milwaukee-area mining equipment manufacturer agreed to a $10.8 million settlement with 401(k) participant employees who say the company improperly included company stock...

July 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) needs almost $240 million more from taxpayers this year to meet its obligations.

December 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension participation in the UK dropped 1% over the last year, as employers continued closing their defined benefit plans to new participants because...

June 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's National Association of Pension Funds said Friday that the government should permit employers to shrink worker benefits, or else be crippled...

June 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Monster Worldwide and Apollo Group have announced internal investigations into their stock option grant practices.