Administration

December 20, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has tentatively decided that acquisition-related goodwill recorded on corporate balance sheets should no longer be amortized, opting...

October 20, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When it rains, it pours. Another fund may find itself under new management, as Federated Investors is in "advanced talks" to acquire Kaufmann...

October 20, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of third quarter junk bond defaults fell from a record second quarter, but there are still plenty of reasons to be...

September 20, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants may be investing with a bit too much "style," according to new research from Hewitt Associates.  The study found that participants are...

August 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small businesses and entrepreneurs can gain a quick read on their state's entrepreneurial "spirit", at least as measured by the sixth annual Small...

June 20, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alliance Capital Management, the ninth-largest investment company in the world, has agreed to acquire Sanford Bernstein & Co., a money management and research...

June 20, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest public pension system took another step toward divestiture of its tobacco holdings - but opted to stay put for now....

May 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Kansas State Treasurer's office has taken a step to reunite Kansas citizens with $75 million in unclaimed US savings bonds by filing...

May 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While financial analysts now view corporate web sites more favorably as a source of corporate information, the medium has a long way to...

March 8, 2001 (HedgeWorld.com) - Who needs a hedge fund, if you can get the same type of exposure and risk/reward profile at a fraction of the cost...

February 8, 2001 (HedgeWorld.com)—eSecLending, LLC, Burlington, Vt., will roll out a securities lending database in July to help benchmark the returns from lending individual securities and index portfolios.

February 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Criticism of stock option programs used by large US corporations continues to mount, this time from one of the UK's largest shareholders.

February 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Schwab and Fidelity mutual fund Web sites got the honors for being the most user friendly during the recent quarter, according to...

February 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.COM)- US venture capital investment continued to fall off in Q4, the third consecutive quarter of year-on-year declines according to a new study.

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although professional investors want more detail and clarity in financial statements, and recognize the limitations of pro forma results, they still consider such reporting...

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Waste Management Inc. has agreed to pay $457 million to settle a class-action lawsuit led by the Connecticut Treasury, filed after an accounting scandal...

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) -In the landmark UK negligence case against Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), the group?s COO Carol Galley admitted to concealing her decision to hand the...

October 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey by The Spaulding Group found that while Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) standards are used by a majority...

October 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Amvescap has been declared the winner in a bidding contest for UK fund manager Perpetual for $1.5 billion in cash/shares, outbidding Citicorp and...

September 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The money manager buying binge, or at least the rumors, continue unabated this week. Germany's Allianz AG is reportedly in preliminary talks with...