Administration

June 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The mutual fund industry blames hedge funds for picking "the pockets of long-term mutual fund investors," but hedge funds say mutual funds could...

June 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a stunning announcement this morning, Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO) giants Hewitt Associates and Exult, Inc. have agreed to merge in an all-stock...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Half of the money managers registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission had fewer assets to manage this year than in 2002, according...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former Minneapolis police and fire pension money manager whose speculative investments allegedly cost the plans $19 million is now facing unrelated federal...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has made a preliminary decision requiring companies to offer more pension plan details - details that currently...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors spoke up - and the Financial Accounting Standards Board apparently took note, opting today to postpone a proposed change in accounting...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Victory Capital Management has announced plans to acquire New York City-based growth equity investment management firm NewBridge Partners.

May 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Managers to run US equity mandates were the most sought after last year among those found by Mercer Investment Consulting (MercerIC) with 90...

April 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual funds are increasingly turning to third-party vendors to do fair valuation pricing for foreign securities, a move that will likely make them...

April 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders at SBC Communications Inc voted down a proposal aimed at linking executive compensation more closely to performance at the company.

April 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Proposed accounting changes for cash balance plans could make it all the more difficult to make apple-to-apple comparisons among defined benefit offerings, a...

April 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two separate scandals have rocked the New York City Employee Retirement System (NYCERS), with one executive being pushed out for promoting his mistress,...

April 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ernst & Young LLP can't take on new public companies as audit clients for six months as a result of an order by...

April 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Credit card issuer Providian Financial Corp. has announced an $8.6 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by participants in its 401(k) plan.

March 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lucent Technologies has reached a $600 million settlement in accounting fraud class action lawsuits.

March 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The defined contribution arrangement that was agreed to by US Airways and its pilots union receives no objections from the Pension Benefit Guaranty...

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Middlesex Retirement System has to turn over documents about its substantial 2003 losses, a Massachusetts judge ruled.

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—The nation's largest pension fund, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has postponed its decision regarding whether or not to continue investment in the...

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking into the fees charged by states in their 529 college savings plans.

March 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is being urged by yet another pension group to review six cases of blocked shareholder access to...