Administration

February 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined benefit plan sponsors, both public and corporate, appear to be getting more for their money, according to new research from PLANSPONSOR and...

February 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A compromise bill in the Oregon state House requiring the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) to swap out its obsolete life-expectancy tables by...

February 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has asked others to join in a request for Tyco to return home.

February 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A much ballyhooed but often delayed effort for a new computer system to bring daily valuation to the federal employees' retirement savings plan...

February 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush Administration's Social Security reform plan including personal retirement accounts would produce a marked jump in the national debt over the next...

February 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a time when many experts fret over the number of Americans with no retirement savings, a new poll found nearly half of...

February 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Calvert Funds, a family of socially responsible investment offerings, has filed shareholder proxy resolutions with 33 companies covering issues such as environmental and...

February 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Franklin Resources and two of its senior officers apparently face US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) civil charges over alleged market timing, the...

February 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts Financial Services Co. (MFS) is expected to name Robert Pozen, former head of Fidelity Investments' investment management unit, as its new nonexecutive...

January 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 27 US companies will have to take a hit on their 2004 earnings because of higher pension costs due to accounting rules,...

January 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 72% of non-retired Canadians now report strongly considering working after they retire.

January 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of corporations changing prior years' financial statements due to accounting errors rose to 330 in 2002, a 22% increase from 2001.

January 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northwest Airlines has reported the company's underfunded pension plan has caused the airline to take a $1 billion after-tax reduction in shareholder equity...

January 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A typical pension plan's funding level plummeted by almost 20% in 2002 and nearly 40% between 2000 and 2002.

January 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An investor group including several pension funds has filed a federal court lawsuit alleging that auditors and investment bankers were either aware of...

January 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pending the outcome of the investigation into alleged market-timing abuses at AMVESCAP Plc subsidiary Invesco, Standard Chartered has suspended sale of Invesco funds...

December 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fees remain a sensitive issue for plan sponsors, but appear to be well in hand for most.

December 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a proxy voting advisor, on Wednesday released its new policies for 2005 US and international proxy voting.

November 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The beleaguered Delta Air Lines announced on Monday that its business organization plan will include a non-qualified employee stock-option incentive program for approximately...

November 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Assets continue to pour out of the Putnam Investments as Oregon officials decided to terminate the state pension funds' investment management relationship with...