Administration

August 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) has fined National Securities Corp and prohibited the firm from opening mutual fund accounts for new...

July 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has reportedly decided to retry former Bank of America Corp. broker Theodore Sihpol, who was acquitted...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in defined contribution plans who came to the equity market's party with its second-quarter rebound reaped the benefits while those with a...

July 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While many employers continue to complain about the cost and "bother" of complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, most are not currently keeping up...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) says that employers will not have to disclose the impact of actuarial assumption changes.

July 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two executives and a defendant named in a lawsuit against INVESCO over improper trading are no longer working for it or an affiliated...

July 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre has filed a lawsuit that intends to roll back city pension benefit increases from 1996 and 2002,...

July 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of West Virginia has agreed to pay Wachovia Securities $185,000 as part of a settlement of dispute over a decision by...

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rudolph Giuliani, the charismatic former mayor of New York City, is rolling out his newest weapon of terrorist mass destruction - investment dollars.

July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Add the State Retirement Agency of Maryland to the growing list of state pension system that are seeing something they haven't for a...

July 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The actuary for the scandal-plagued San Diego City Employee Retirement System (SDCERS) has been slapped with a participant lawsuit, alleging that the firm...

June 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The total amount of pension underfunding among ailing US plans covered by the private-sector pension insurer hit a record $357 billion in 2004...

June 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The biggest potential obstacle in the path of large plan sponsors is how to produce their target returns in a low-return market though...

June 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Congressional watchdog agency has recommended that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) better document its criminal referrals in securities cases and...

May 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State and federal prosecutors may bring the ongoing mutual fund trading scandal even more squarely to Charles Schwab's doorstep.

May 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The long-simmering dispute between state of Washington regulators and Morgan Stanley over the firm's investment advice to Microsoft Corp. employees has spilled into...

May 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) corporate governance reforms cost private companies an average $50,000 last year while their public counterparts reported a compliance...

May 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual funds held in retirement accounts, both individual and employer-sponsored, accounted for one-third of all mutual fund assets in existence at the end...

April 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi is enlisting the help of 235,000 Empire State pensioners to fight Governor George Pataki's plan to cap...

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has allowed Newmont Mining Inc. to omit a shareholder resolution submitted by five New York City pension...