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April 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc. (MSCI) and Barra, Inc. announced today the signing of a definitive merger agreement.

April 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly has asked a US bankruptcy judge to make sure that whoever buys Polaroid Corp. maintains the company's retiree...

April 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A shareholder proposal that would have excluded IBM's overfunded pension plan when figuring executive bonuses fell short at the computer maker's annual meeting.

April 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Xerox Corp. has nominated an outsider to its board of directors less than three weeks after the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)...

April 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chief executive officers aren't headed for the door of the corporate executive suite quite as often these days, a new survey found.

April 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK-based Friends Ivory & Sime (FIS) bought the asset management arm of embattled insurer Royal & Sun Alliance (RSA) in a deal that...

April 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 64% of the UK's large pension funds are now in deficit, a new survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting finds.

March 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest public pension system has decided to go public with information on its private equity investments.

March 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Adobe Systems Inc's Board of Directors has adopted guidelines that would prevent its top executives from immediately selling some of the shares they...

March 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A trade group representing public pension plans has fired its own broadside in response to a recent Wilshire Associates study, which painted a...

March 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Incited by a raft of accounting debacles in the past year, retail investors are now leading the charge to require companies to treat...

February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The mutual fund industry's primary trade group has asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to consider requiring financial intermediaries to receive...

February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—California Public Employees Retirement System's (CalPERS) board has the authority, because of state law that went into effect January 1, to decide salaries for 28...

February 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Few things have the potential to be as disruptive to a plan sponsor as a shift in management at a carefully selected investment...

February 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill pending in Congress could change the face of offshore income deferral and escalate hedge fund taxes by $5 billion over the...

February 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer's German Human Resource Consulting arm has entered into an agreement with KPMG to acquire its German Actuarial Services division.

February 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has overhauled its emerging market policy by barring stock investment in Malaysia, Thailand, India, Russia, and...

February 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS Global Asset Management has overhauled its hedge fund and real estate investment business operations.

February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal probe of improper market-timing at Franklin Resources has found that the company's alleged misdeeds were more widespread than the arrangement with...

February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) has had no statistically significant impact on shareholder class-action lawsuit filings, average or median settlement values, or investor recovery...