Administration

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five of this year's top performing mutual funds are profiting from short selling strategies because of the still struggling markets, Standard & Poor's...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Individual investors may be fleeing equities for the safe harbor offered by bonds and cash, but many pension funds are headed in the...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the latest of a string of black marks against a troubled Pittsburgh investment manager, the Retirement Board of Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) is...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett thinks corporate managements got swept up in the exuberant late 1990s bull market, leading them to forecast gains on...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With increasing numbers of companies announcing they would now voluntarily expense employee stock options, the nation's accounting standards board has agreed to help...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There are ominous indications in Sacramento at the nation's largest pension fund, the $150 billion California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS).

July 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - a North Carolina Business Court judge has upheld First Union's merger agreement with Wachovia, but there was good news for rival suitor SunTrust...

July 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com- While expanded pension and savings opportunities abound in the new tax bill, more than a third (35%) of employer-sponsored retirement plan participants remain uncertain...

June 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS Asset Management (UBS-AM) will acquire RT Capital Management, Royal Bank of Canada's (RBC) asset management business, in a $230 million deal.

June 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research indicates that stock options, once only popular in the US, UK and Canada, are catching on in other countries, offering employers...

May 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Newton Investment Management, Mellon Financial Corporation's UK private client asset management subsidiary, is buying Henderson Private Asset Management (HPAM).

May 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pioneer Global Asset Management S.p.A., has acquired UK-based Momentum Group, a fund of hedge funds manager, for $110 million. The acquisition is subject...

April 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Women of the Baby Boomer generation have not made adequate preparation for their future financial security, a recent study by Prudential Insurance Company...

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a decision that puts Hewlett Packard's merger with Compaq Computer Corp in jeopardy, a Delaware court has ruled in favor of Walter...

April 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Proxy research and advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), has switched sides in the dispute over IBM's new cash-based retirement plan.

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An average of 61% of the total shares of most large, multinationals are owned by institutional investors, a PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Barometer finds.

April 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Italy's biggest insurer Generali plans to create a Europe-based asset management company focusing on life pension funds.

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Reacting to the defection of key staffers after its purchase of BARRA RogersCasey (BRC), Capital Resource Advisors (CRA) points out that most of...

March 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over 3/4 of employees have access to financial planning services in their workplace - and more than 70% of the remaining 24% would...

March 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Women executives may often earn more than their spouse and invest an average $300,000 annually - but that doesn't mean they like doing...