Administration

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State retirement systems continued to struggle with slumping asset values and larger liabilities, and had twice as big a shortfall in 2003 as...

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aon Corp. has agreed to pay $190 million to end a bid-rigging investigation brought on by three states.

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest US public pension fund, will withhold votes for four Applied Materials Inc. directors up for election March...

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 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 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 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...

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The next time a globetrotting member of the city of Detroit pension board wants to travel out of state on official business, it...

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Washington state's legislature is taking on Initiative 790 (I-790) to correct a drastic increase in workers' contributions.

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The head of San Diego's pension system has admitted that about 200 retirees received pension payments after they died.

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Oregon state House has approved and sent to the state Senate a compromise bill governing how pension officials should swap 25-year-old mortality...

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It often takes an average of four weeks to fill a staff accounting job and six weeks to bring on a finance manager,...

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has turned to Madison Avenue in its latest attempts to get Tyco International back on American...

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock options continue to fall out of favor as a means of compensation, while full-value stock grants are coming into vogue, according to...

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Like many a non-market related market barometer, the so-called Super Bowl indicator has fallen on hard times of late.

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canadian and American regulators, as part of an insider trading probe, have charged three hedge fund managers with short-selling abuses.

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though the Social Security system is not in crisis, the top government watchdog told Congressional lawmakers that delaying reforms until 2042 would...

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Congressional Research Service has released a report on proposed individual accounts in Social Security, outlining possible benefits and drawbacks to the plan.