Administration

May 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three veteran San Diego officials involved in that city's ongoing pension scandal stepped down from their positions this week.

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...

April 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The recently finalized Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) proposal to force companies to put pensions and other post-employment benefits on their balance sheets...

April 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The international accounting rulemakers have released an Exposure Draft relating to pension cost accounting proposals.

April 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said that the State of Michigan has been appointed as one of three institutional co-lead plaintiffs in an...

April 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate fraud in the United Kingdom is most likely to be committed by long-serving male executives.

April 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In their efforts to chase more robust returns, US institutions are increasing their investments in international equities, private equity, and other alternative assets,...

March 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors will have one less provider option going forward, as Harris Trust has told clients it is selling its traditional employee benefit...

March 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an era when cash-strapped companies and their workers are increasingly doing battle over the future of their pension plans, American Airlines management...

March 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cash balance conversion increases retirement plan costs an average of 2.2%, disputing arguments of hybrid retirement plan critics that contend companies convert to...

March 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK pension funding crisis of the 1990s that saw the end of many final salary schemes could have been avoided by allocating...

March 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Poor corporate governance policies not only have the potential to place a drag on a company's financial performance, but also could also negatively...

March 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Watson Wyatt LLP has spun off its Boston-based insurance and financial services strategic consulting group with a management buyout led by two senior...

March 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A flight from money market mutual funds into bank deposits and other targets because of low interest rates helped drive a $43-billion mutual...

February 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional investors have filed separate lawsuits against Tyson Foods and Cisco Systems over allegations the firms used stock option grants to illegally funnel...

February 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD has issued an Investor Alert that warns workers against concentrating excessive amounts of company stock in their 401(k) plans.