May 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although awareness of tax advantaged 529 college savings plans among parents has doubled in the last year, most parents still have never heard...
May 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Walker MacRae is partnering with The Bay Ridge Group, an Endwell, New York recordkeeper, to offer qualified plan services and investment products to...
April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent report on the state of many of the nation's public pension funds seems likely to "misinform and confuse, rather than enlighten,"...
April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees of the scandal-plagued Putnam Investments violated the firm's policies through "the payment of Putnam corporate expenses" involving Putnam-administered retirement plans, several Putnam...
April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Robust stock market gains in 2003 have helped 18 companies in the S&P 500 move their defined benefit plans from underfunded to overfunded.
April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An ex-Bank of America broker who was the first to be arrested in the ongoing state of New York mutual fund trading probe...
April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) has reached a settlement with a former Salomon Smith Barney analyst who maintained abnormally high price...
April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Colorado Governor Bill Owens is poised to ink a bill that would protect portfolio company valuations from disclosure.
April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Days after the merger of FleetBoston Financial and Bank of America, the senior management team at Progress Investment Management Company worked out a...
April 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wachovia Corporation has agreed to acquire the retirement plan recordkeeping and third-party servicing business of PFPC Inc.
April 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The stock markets have already factored in the effect of stock option expensing making the effect of mandatory expensing on a company's stock...
April 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) hedge fund industry investigation has turned its attention to the role of prime brokers in directing pension...
April 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The last two years have exacted a substantial toll on pensions at the nation's largest companies, with many pouring in extra cash to...
April 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wealthy Canadians are a pretty unassuming lot, according to the picture emerging from an RBC Investments/Ipsos-Reid poll that set out to measure how...
April 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Financial Corporation has agreed to acquire a Cleveland investment management firm serving retirement firms, non-profit organization, and high net worth clients.
April 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As expected, on Friday Walter Hewlett, the son of one of the founders of Hewlett-Packard, lost his seat on the company's board of...
April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's accounting rulemakers may have reached closure on the subject, but controversy regarding the impact of expensing stock options continues unabated.
March 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Airways Group Inc has submitted to the bankruptcy judge a new 15-member board as the company prepares to emerge from Chapter 11.