Administration

July 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The scandal plagued Janus Capital Group on Thursday announced that an unidentified client had announced plans to pull out about $5 billion in...

July 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Quest Software Inc. announced it will restate its annual and interim financial statements for all periods from 2000 through 2005 and for the...

July 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AIG VALIC announced it has acquired from KPMG LLC Acumen Financial Group, a provider of financial and retirement planning technology tools to financial...

July 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chicago - For a small plan, "it gets even harder when you are evaluating service providers," said Michael Sheffieck, Executive Vice President, CFO,...

June 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The parent of scandal plagued Putnam Investments has folded the company's defined contribution administration business into its Mercer HR Outsourcing unit.

June 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of its call for sweeping changes to certain US accounting and reporting rules, the staff at the US Securities and Exchange...

June 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The last of the initial four firms charged in the mutual fund trading scandal has come to terms with state and federal regulators.

June 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Since October 2003, 20 companies have frozen their DB plans, but in an analysis issued this month, Merrill Lynch advised companies to wait...

June 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Higher interest rates should help improve the overall US pension funding picture, the former chief of the nation's private-sector pension insurer said.

June 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private equity investors were buoyed in 2003 by stronger deal pipelines, rising valuations and an increase in initial public offering (IPO) activity.

June 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The International Employee Stock Option Coalition (IESOC) has called the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) recent mandate to record all stock option grants...

June 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—A group of five state treasurers met Tuesday with officials to discuss implementing comprehensive disclosure principles for Section 529 college savings plans, a news release...

June 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California State Controller Steve Westly wants the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) to play a more active role in setting executive compensation...

June 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Capital Research and Management, money manager for the $450-billion American Funds mutual fund group, is apparently being scrutinized for potential directed brokerage violations.

June 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) analysts David Zion and Bill Carcache think the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is off base with its...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The assets of all Section 529 plan programs, which are meant to help pay for higher education, climbed 6.8% to $82.6 billion in...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey's retirement fund for teachers stands nearly 31% underfunded, with $29.6 billion in funds at the end of last fiscal year, according...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A joint venture by New York Common Retirement Fund (CRF) and other investors to make combined equity investments in the Empire State has...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The board of Massachusetts' largest pension fund has filed a suit against the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (PERAC) to try to deter...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York City Comptroller William Thompson Jr. has gotten involved in the uproar over spiraling gas prices with a demand to ExxonMobil to...