Administration

September 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lead by across-the-board increases in hedge fund investments, institutional investors are likely to further embrace alternative investments to the point where their commitment...

September 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar Inc is in talks with federal securities regulators to settle allegations the company didn't correct published mutual fund data quickly enough.

August 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - To alleviate current pension underfunding problems plaguing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), one think-tank suggests scrapping the agency altogether, creating a private...

August 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Leaders of the faltering San Diego pension system, claiming that their lawyers lead them into an unsound arrangement and should be held accountable,...

August 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most US senior financial executives back a controversial plan by accounting rulemakers to force public companies to expense their stock option programs.

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Illinois Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) is considering a proposal to ban outside consulting deals like the one with Republican National Committee treasurer...

August 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials at a national compensation manager trade group are warning of a potential problem with a new interpretation by the Financial Accounting Standards...

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Britain's new Pension Protection Fund (PPF) appears poised to take over the pension plans of the collapsed MG Rover Group, according to reports.

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments' head of equity trading Scott DeSano has been reassigned as federal authorities continue investigating whether Fidelity traders improperly received lavish gifts...

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Florida bankruptcy judge has turned down a request by a group of retirees from Jacksonville-based supermarket chain Winn-Dixie to appoint a special...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One prominent business group has appealed to the nation's accounting rulemaker to delay implementing stock option expensing and to test various valuation models.

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the value of new stock option awards to CEOs at large companies plunged near 60% between 2001 and 2003, there was also...

June 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The NASD has censured and fined five brokerage firms a total of $625,000 for not preventing late trading with adequate supervisory systems and...

May 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Ohio Ethics Commission report accuses four investment managers of giving staff, family members and friends of the Ohio Police & Fire Pension...

May 24, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The once-flaming controversy over the ultra-rich compensation package given to former New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso appeared to heat up again...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Critics complain that a deal between the city of San Diego and one of its unions that is predicted to generate $200 million...

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A coalition of 26 public pension funds have vowed to invest $1 billion into clean technology companies in the next year.

May 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prominent technology company Cisco Systems has thrown a new wrinkle into the ongoing controversy over stock option expensing with a proposal to publicly...

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Socially responsible (SRI) mutual funds are much stronger proponents of corporate governance shareholder resolutions than their conventional brethren, according to a study by...

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a year where most plan sponsors appeared to be doing just about everything "right," large defined benefit plans still struggled to stay...