Administration

January 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MFS Investment Management and federal and state regulators are close to striking a $200 million deal that would involve slashing management fees charged...

January 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has subpoenaed a handful of insurance companies to examine whether mutual fund market timers took advantage of...

January 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As are many other institutional investors, the Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System (SERS) is dipping its toe further into the hedge fund pool.

January 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Premiums for liability insurance covering corporate boardrooms shot up 33% in 2003.

January 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 3 million affluent households may be considering reducing their mutual fund positions due to the recent mutual fund scandals.

January 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As much as 43% of a mutual fund's expenses are being omitted from their expense ratios, and transaction costs of some funds exceed...

January 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors looking to add a little spark to their retirement plan components, may want to take a peak at the American Association...

December 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Van Hedge Fund Indices is striking back at a paper released last month that questioned the validity of hedge fund indices' returns.

December 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though they won't yet have to register as investment advisers with federal regulators, Wall Street brokers can continue to sell investment advice...

December 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A man hired to upgrade the city' of Milwaukee's pension system was sentenced to 18 months in prison and five years of extended...

December 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Colorado State Treasurer Mike Coffman has appointed an outside commission to look into the books of the state's public pension system.

December 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the pending requirements next year that companies expense stock options, Aetna will cut off its option program for non-managers and switch them...

November 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension deficits for major US firms are expected to rise to $129 billion by December, according to a report from Aon Consulting.

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Standard Management Corporation has announced that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent to sell its Financial Services Division to an...

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING Group has split and sold its Baring Asset Management unit, with the Financial Services Group going to Northern Trust and the global...

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors are apparently laboring under massive confusion about the rules governing brokers and financial advisors and the differences between the two, according to...

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what seems likely to be the start of another corporate governance battle, two California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) board members have...

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recently released paper is questioning the validity of reported hedge fund returns, claiming that backfill and survivorship biases in hedge fund indices...

November 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has accepted a staff recommendation to kick off a wide-ranging exam of pension fund and post retirement...

November 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After sitting on the sidelines for months - and with some apparently still not wholly satisfied with the terms - a majority of...