Administration

August 17, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance has joined the growing list of providers to offer its 401(k) customers access to self-directed brokerage accounts.

July 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lehman Brothers plans to trim the weight of Japanese government bonds (JGB) in its Global Aggregate and Asia-Pacific indices, effective January 2002.

July 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate investment in venture capital investments plunged 81% in the first quarter, a victim of a shaky market, recession concerns, uninspiring valuations, a...

July 17, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canada's Royal Bank is still trying to negotiate a settlement that will avoid a public airing of pension management activities that could tarnish...

July 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Paris-based ARESE has introduced the first of a series of new indexes that will include companies rated highly in terms of sustainability.

June 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers can reduce their primary healthcare expenses and improve employee health, thereby increasing productivity, simply by changing the menu at the corporate cafeteria,...

June 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a bid to restore some of the luster to its pay program, Nortel Networks has decided to allow staff to cancel their...

June 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - FleetBoston Financial Corp will acquire Liberty Financial Companies' asset management businesses in a $900 million cash deal, a $750 million premium to the...

May 17, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The $174 billion California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), in the first asset allocation shift since September 1997, voted to increase its exposure...

April 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that synthetic trades are not considered "securities" under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

April 5, 2001 - (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If you've got a beef about CEO pay, the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) now offers a serious site...

March 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants may be gaining more access to advice, but those most satisfied with the advice, and likely to act on it, have opted...

February 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com)- Managing risk may be undervalued, according to value manager Warren Buffett.

December 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts regulators became the first in the country to propose banning companies from forcing employees to hold company stock in their 401(k) plans.

December 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government would take over pensions and retiree health care programs for the steel industry under a three-pronged industry consolidation plan now...

October 16, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The investment committee of the $177 billion California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) decided not to decide on the selection of international equity...

October 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of its ongoing strategy to round out its product offerings, New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM), a subsidiary of New York...

September 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Americans continue to put in more hours on the job than any other industrialized nation ? but that doesn't necessarily translate into higher productivity,...

June 16,2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nvest, the Boston-based investment management firm, will become part of CDC Asset Management, the money management arm of France's Caisse des Depots Group. CDC...

June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Suits alleging fraud in the sale of variable annuities - including those as an investment in 401(k) or IRAs - are preempted by...