Administration

January 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Financial Corporation has completed a corporate reorganization that involved a merger between its Dreyfus Mutual Fund unit and its Institutional Asset Management...

December 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Montana lawmakers were told in a Legislative Audit Committee hearing that they could face a lawsuit if they do not fix the public...

December 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was dismissed as a defendant in three lawsuits accusing it and seven trading firms of fraud.

November 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest estimate from Invesmart about the "reasonable" standard for the annual fees paid by a plan participant with an equity portfolio has...

November 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Separately managed accounts (SMAs) are already the focus of many advisors' practices and seem poised for significant growth, even though few investors are...

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments seems to be playing a bit of musical chairs in its fixed-income department.

October 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mohammed El-Erian, a managing director of Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco) has been tapped to succeed Jack Meyer as president of Harvard Management...

October 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day after its beleaguered chief executive stepped down, Marsh & McLennan Companies announced a series of compliance reforms for Marsh Inc., its...

October 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The most often-cited measure of the nation's savings performance is a statistically flawed economic barometer that may end up causing an undercounting of...

September 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to The National Association of State Retirement Administrator's Public Fund Survey, "…substantially all of underfunded public pension plans are able to meet...

August 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BlackRock, Inc has entered into a definitive agreement to State Street Research & Management Company and SSR Realty Advisors Inc, from MetLife for...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors who sell shares in a Vanguard fund after September 30 will not be able to purchase shares in that fund by phone...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) public employee union pension plan has asked to meet with the lead director...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Royal Dutch/Shell Group has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a US federal court lawsuit filed by current and former employees...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is apparently investigating whether Bear Stearns gave inaccurate bond pricing information to an institutional customer, Reuters reported.

July 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The people most likely to get hurt by companies' cutting back their stock compensation awards because of changing accounting standards don't work in...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Third party administrators (TPAs), such as retirement plan recordkeepers and administrators, are weighing options for alternative investment choices in response to a reporting...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The controversy continues this week over a $263,000 severance package to a former director of the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) and the plan...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The former San Diego pension board member who alerted local lawmakers to problems with their retirement system, has turned down a councilman's invitation...

June 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The voices of corporate governance activists complaining about executive pay packages that some deemed way too rich resounded in a big way at...