Administration

January 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Motors Corp. is lowering its corporate sights for the 2003 rate of return on its $67-billion pension fund.

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two securities clearinghouses are joining hands to form a new company now scheduled to kick off operations January 1.

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Templeton Investment Council LLC and Sierra Investment Partners, Inc have formed an alliance to service Taft-Hartley pension clients, according to the announcement by...

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kenneth Lipper's Lipper & Co has applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for deregistration of the firm's three mutual funds.

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Some 56% of eligible 401(k) participants at large and mid-sized plans administered by Fidelity Investments have taken advantage of EGTRRA's catch-up provision.

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has agreed to review current pension fund regulations, in a move that could lead to an overhaul...

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Global Crossing chairman Gary Winnick said he has contributed $25 million to the company's 401(k) plan participants to help make up for some...

December 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US pension funds have gotten pounded in the last two years with assets underperforming liabilities by 37%, according to Ryan Labs Inc.

December 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The vast majority of 401(k) plan sponsors prefer to keep the selecting, hiring, and firing of service providers close to 'home', a recent...

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest public pension fund has decided to release performance information on the private equity investments of the $140 billion fund.

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kaiser Aluminum is weighing its options around a required $17 million pension contribution due on the Kaiser Salaried Employee Retirement Plan (KRP), according...

December 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has agreed to pick up a Wisconsin retirement plan administrator, which specializes in ESOPs.

November 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Today marks a signal development in the transition management business - the deadline for Washington State's Department of Retirement Systems transition RFP, which...

November 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The head of the European investment fund industry says an early-stage investigation in Europe uncovered no evidence of market timing or late trading.

November 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - eSecLending, LLC, a securities lending manager, has recently completed a securities lending auction of approximately $15 billion in passive international equities for the...

November 19, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Only a third of Americans are very confident they will be able to maintain their lifestyle in retirement, but nearly half (41%) haven't...

October 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has added a project on financial performance reporting to its agenda, aiming to make it easier for...

October 31, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments says it will trim its payrolls by 2%, axing some 760 jobs. Roughly 12% of those will come from the retirement unit,...

October 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors of Bank of America Corp's mutual funds harmed by hedge fund Canary Capital Management LLC's late trading activities will be paid restitution.

October 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The largest US accounting firms will be scrutinized once a year, while smaller companies will be examined at least once very 36 months,...