Administration

May 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While seeking new sources of capital, dealing with increased regulation and expanding into new markets, hedge funds are finding that their search for...

October 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Taking a position in fund of hedge funds may be one of the hot games in town for pension money managers these days,...

May 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investigators for New York's Attorney General Eliot Spitzer have decided to dig deeper into the investment activities of public and private pension plans,...

May 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Montgomery County, Maryland school system has severed ties with and is suing a company that manages retirement investments for hundreds of teachers...

May 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite a reduction in the compliance costs of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), 72% of directors surveyed say they do not believe the benefits...

May 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Funneling money into employee pension funds when interest rates are low and liabilities are inflated, could create pension surpluses, trapping money into a...

October 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Pension and Endowments Newsletter from Merrill Lynch analyzes the impact the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) new Statement 158 will have...

April 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Fiserv Securities Inc. broker has agreed to pay $100,000 and be barred from association with any broker or dealer to settle...

April 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is saying that there are valuable lessons to be learned from the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) failure...

April 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey from compensation consultants Pearl Meyer & Partners suggests that compensation for CEOs of major US companies moved more in line with...

April 10, 2006 (PLNSPONSOR.com) - Paternoster Ltd., a new UK firm that plans to acquire the assets and liabilities of UK defined benefit pension plans, has raised £500...

April 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northwest Airlines Corp. has agreed to make some payments to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) on its pension debt.

October 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) voted 6-1 yesterday against taking up a project on pension disclosure that could have led to requiring...

April 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boyertown, Pennsylvania-based National Penn Capital Advisors, Inc., a subsidiary of National Penn Bank, announced today that it has acquired RESOURCES for Retirement, Inc,...

October 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Minnesota State Auditor Patricia Anderson has accused executives and former trustees of the defunct Minneapolis teachers pension fund of failing to transfer all...

April 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued a draft abstract regarding accounting for sabbatical leave and other similar benefits in relation to...

October 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has obtained settlement agreements from Circle Trust Company (CTC) of Darien, Connecticut, and other corporate and individual defendants,...

March 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Updated research by Northern Trust shows that smaller emerging money managers frequently continue to outperform their larger and more senior colleagues in the...

March 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US tech firms continue prior practices as they keep shifting away from options-based compensation programs, a new compensation trends survey has found.

March 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Increased competition is pressuring fees on exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to data from Morgan Stanley.