Administration

November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new academic study of instances of stock options backdating between 1996 and 2005 has found a correlation between the backdating practices and...

November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by Frederic W. Cook & Co., Inc. finds NYSE 100 and the NASDAQ 100 companies are shifting boards of directors'...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Charles Schwab Corporation has announced an agreement to sell U.S. Trust, its wealth management subsidiary, to Bank of America for $3.3 billion in...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The founder and chief executive officer of HCC Insurance Holdings Inc., Stephen Way, has stepped down after an independent probe uncovered improper stock...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 53 largest US endowments have so far invested a total of $40 billion of their assets into hedge funds, mainly in the...

November 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), provider of corporate governance and proxy voting services, said it is adopting a case-by-case analysis approach to the options...

November 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has announced a settlement agreement with former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling on charges of mismanagement of the company's...

November 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US pension plan managers have taken a more aggressive equity position than their UK counterparts, Aon Consulting said.

November 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Flatware maker Oneida Ltd., which emerged from bankruptcy in September, is challenging a new termination penalty fee imposed by the nation's private pension...

November 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell has signed into law bills allowing the state's two largest pension funds to refuse public access to certain investment...

November 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A report by a UK financial services firm predicts that 46% of the country's defined benefit schemes will collapse by 2011 because it...

November 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Funding for defined benefit plans in Japan continued its ascent, with the average pension plan 96% funded in 2006, up from 83% last...

November 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - KB Home has announced Chairman and CEO Bruce Karatz has retired, effective immediately, following the results of its independent investigation into stock option...

November 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While liability driven investing (LDI) may be a hot topic in some retirement plan circles these days, a new study found that many...

December 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Several investment firms are in negotiations to acquire Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), a technology and human resources outsourcing company.

December 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged two former San Francisco hedge fund managers with carrying out market timing and late...

November 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has approved a $9.35 million settlement for more than 500 former Azon Corp. workers who charged in a lawsuit that...

November 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB) could have ready for distribution a revised position arising out of its project relating to the proper...

November 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge fund Bayou Group reached its first legal settlement on Friday with one of the investors it claimed received inflated profits and returns...

November 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Outsourcing and consulting giant Hewitt Associates closed out a tough fiscal year on a disappointing note.