Administration

May 30, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most 401(k) plan participants, regardless of age, are taking lump-sum cash payments when changing jobs rather than rolling over the money into their...

April 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Trust has sold its corporate trust business to the Bank of New York, choosing to focus on its wealth management business.

March 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension funds with on-staff advisors end up with better investment results than those who outsource their asset management tasks, a UK study found.

March 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has released its Premium Payment Package for the 2002 plan year.

February 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) backed a move by General Electric Co. to block a shareholder proposal to increase pensions from its...

January 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Individual retirement account (IRA) assets grew almost 22% between 1998-1999, reaching $2.47 trillion and topping the assets in both private pension and defined...

December 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Francisco-based First Republic Bank, a provider of private banking, investment management and trust services announced that is has reached an agreement to...

December 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ever the wheeler-dealer, Alabama's pension fund is looking to improve the deal struck to buy 37.5% of US Airways.

December 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's has cut its projected year-end US junk bond default rate forecast to between 7% and 7.5% from between 8% and...

November 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Corporation will become the world's largest global custodian after it agreed to buy substantial parts of Deutsche Bank's Global Securities Services...

November 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PR Newswire has released Edgar Express to assist public companies with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings on Edgar.

November 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the second time this year, money manager Neuberger Berman avoided having to buy back much of a zero-coupon convertible bond issue maturing...

October 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers that offer both defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) plans tend to have savings plans that are more generous, use more...

September 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Monday's atmosphere among plan sponsors appeared to be a calm one with no reports of a rush by plan participants to flee equities...

September 29, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants continue to have more choices, and more ways to exercise them, with nearly two-thirds (64%) of plans offering plan information on the...

September 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken steps to facilitate liquidity in the US equities markets as they reopen Monday, including easing...

September 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK pension plan Prudential Staff Pension Scheme has appointed JPMorgan Investor Services Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) as its global custodian.

September 5, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Steel Corp. took its dog-and-pony show to Washington to show off its $300-million economic restructuring plan to the Bush administration.

September 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Six pension funds will receive at least $2 million from former Arizona Governor Fife Symington to settle a bankruptcy case stemming from a...

August 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Company stock has always been something of a mixed blessing for 401(k) plans, with plan sponsors torn between a desire for employee ownership...