Administration

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US companies are exploring a number of alternatives in an effort to stem their pension costs, while still being able to attract and...

January 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The State of Michigan is attempting to take lead plaintiff status in a securities class action lawsuit against HealthSouth Corporation, which is accused...

January 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors are well aware that providers are eagerly eyeing the opportunity to manage participant accounts once they leave the plan - but...

December 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) Board voted to oppose new legislation that would effectively close the current defined benefit plan to...

December 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workstream Inc., a management software provider, has announced the closing of its private placement with institutional investors of common stock and warrants with...

December 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court panel on Friday explored with lawyers what regulators meant by using the word "client" in a new hedge fund...

December 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CIBC World Markets Inc. and two of its employees were fined Tuesday over allegations of improper trading on the TSX and TSX Ventures...

December 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BISYS has agreed to acquire a New Jersey-based hedge fund and private equity administrative service provider, according to a news release.

November 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - MetLife Inc. said the NASD has notified MetLife Securities Inc. of its preliminary determination to charge the unit with failure to enforce written...

November 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a race with San Diego's troubled pension system as a key issue, Jerry Sanders has defeated Councilwoman Donna Frye as the city's...

November 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is moving closer to its goal of revamping current reporting rules for pensions and other post-retirement benefits...

In the wake of the mutual fund scandal, the SEC has proposed a series of reforms, several of which have potentially severe consequences for plan sponsors.

October 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US Bankruptcy Judge has approved a business reorganization for the bankrupt Georgetown Steel Co. under which the company would begin paying creditors...

October 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ING Investment Management has sold its Los Angeles-based Delta Asset Management division with approximately $4 billion of institutional assets to Berkeley Capital Management...

October 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Scandal plagued Strong Financial Corp. will cut 107 jobs at the end of 2004, according to a notice the company filed with the...

September 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Forstmann Little investment firm has agreed to pay the state of Connecticut $15 million to settle charges that it improperly invested state...

September 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Local lawmakers in Huntington, West Virginia have postponed consideration of a measure imposing a 1% occupation tax as part of a plan to...

September 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka tried at a board meeting without success to get the Illinois State Board of Investment to withdraw...

August 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Thomas Jones, the former chief executive of Citigroup's asset management division, and Lewis Daidone, treasurer...

August 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A paper published in the current edition of the Journal of Deferred Compensation examines the use of socially responsible investing (SRI) in retirement...