Administration

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Japanese fund manager Sparx Asset Management Co, has concluded a stock deal for control of a $200 million dollar fund to be set...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly two-thirds of Generation X professionals currently use or plan to use a financial planner.

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The escalating battle of wills between Pennsylvania Auditor General Robert Casey, Jr. and Pennsylvania's two major public employee pension funds is getting even...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) acted Thursday to require mutual funds to disclose to investors how they voted on decisions at...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AK Steel Corporation said it submitted a bid to acquire substantially all of the steelmaking and finishing assets of National Steel Corporation, without...

January 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors and other institutional investors in the US options market stand to benefit from the linkage of five US options exchanges.

December 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Orange County, California anti-tax group has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block the state's plan to sell $929 million in...

December 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Preliminary results of a new consultant survey suggest that public defined benefit funds are getting a better price on investment management than their...

December 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Citizens Advisers, Inc., a Portsmouth, New Hampshire socially responsible investment management firm, released its latest annual proxy voting guidelines developed by the firm's...

December 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) has affixed its vigilant eye on Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

December 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Franklin Resources' internal probe of potential trading abuses has pinpointed instances of frequent trading in shares of certain funds by two current or...

December 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Of the 108 million Americans employed with a private-sector company, 21.2% own company stock.

December 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York State grand jury is looking into allegations that illegal fund trading at a Phoenix trustee/custodian cost its customers millions of...

December 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investment advisors are increasingly important to the delivery of a host of services to retirement plans, and retirement plan sponsors, and one can...

December 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The board of Franklin Templeton Investments' mutual funds has approved a measure to stop selling new B shares as of January 14.

November 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest pension fund may be moving into fund of hedge fund investments if the investment committee voices its support on Monday.

November 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America has admitted in a regulatory filing that it is being audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding its switch...

November 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not too long after waging a boardroom brawl with Michael Eisner, chief executive officer of Walt Disney Co., Roy Disney is out beating...

November 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than a third (35%) of companies in a recent poll say they plan to change their employee stock purchase plans (ESPP) before...

October 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) proposals requiring more disclosures on pensions and other post-retirement benefits has caught the critical ire of Mercer...