Administration

May 18, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index, which tracks the relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities, was nearly unchanged from its prior month’s level...

May 18, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The National Association of Bond Lawyers (NABL) has published guidelines for state and local government disclosure obligations when offering bonds to the market.

May 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional investors are finding increasingly strategic uses for exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to a study from Greenwich Associates.

May 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sustainable investing is gaining more interest from investors and plan sponsors. 
 

May 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The median return of the BNY Mellon U.S. Master Trust Universe was 7.12% for the first quarter of 2012. 
 

May 9, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan in April fell 3.5 percentage points to 76.3%—the first decline in 2012, according...

May 8, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – It was a relatively quiet year on the target-date fund glide path front—at least as far as major equity/fixed-income changes go, according to...

May 7, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An issue brief from the Center for State and Local Government Excellence looks at the effects of the 2008-2009 stock market decline on...

May 4, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) is suing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executives and board members.

May 2, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As a result of the double digit returns of equities and real estate investment trusts (REITs), all institutional plan types reported strong positive...

May 2, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The City of Baltimore and New Britain Firefighters’ Benefit Fund filed a consolidated and amended complaint against Citigroup Inc. Credit Suisse AG, Bank...

May 2, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The aggregate deficit in pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies grew $39 billion in April to $375 billion, according to new figures...

May 2, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sprint Nextel Corp. was sued by a Louisiana pension fund after New York’s attorney general accused the company of deliberately failing to pay...

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Approximately one-third of outperformance from skill should go to hedge fund managers in the form of fees, with the rest going to the...

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. state and local public-employee retirement systems had $2.7 trillion in total cash and investment holdings in 2010. 
 

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Google, Inc. was sued by a Brockton, Massachusetts, pension fund that claims the company’s planned stock split would unfairly create nonvoting shares. 
 

May 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New York City’s pension funds announced plans to vote their 4.7 million Wal-Mart company shares against five directors standing for re-election to the...

April 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, such as interest rate swaps, have become standard tools for defined benefit pension plans.

April 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two Oregon state employees sued one of the outside money managers most favored by Oregon's state pension fund for fraud.

April 25, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) released its first report chronicling the pension fund’s efforts in sustainable investing.