Deals and People

April 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over the weekend Dennis Tito, founder of investment consultant Wilshire Associates, got his $20 million ticket to ride a Russian rocket to the...

April 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush has nominated Eugene Scalia, son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be solicitor of labor.

April 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securities lawyer Harvey Pitt, a former general counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has emerged as the Bush administration's favorite for...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Norman Bobins, president and chief executive of LaSalle Bank, and Diane Swonk, chief economist at Bank One Corp., are being considered for an...

April 17, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity lost one of its stars yesterday, as the mutual fund industry continues to lose talented managers to the allure of running their...

April 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Labor Secretary Elaine Chao failed to list her position on the board of privately held Multa Communications Corporation (Multacom) on her financial...

April 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate has confirmed, by unanimous consent, two assistant secretaries at the Department of Labor (DOL), Chris Spear as Assistant Secretary of Labor...

March 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bill Sweetnam has been named attorney-advisor at the Treasury Department and is expected to assume the role of Benefits Tax Counsel.

March 22, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kathleen Oswald, 51, the auto industry's highest-ranking woman before resigning last November from DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler division, has joined Ford as executive director, Human...

March 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush plans to nominate Ann Laine Combs to be Assistant Secretary of Labor.

March 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Frank Russell Company has hired Pamela Clancy Rotondo to the new position of Client Sales Executive for its global securities business, focusing on...

March 6, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Jim Wironen, formerly President of Morningstar's Institutional division, has joined online advice software provider Acumation as EVP of Sales and Marketing.

March 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Burkett Huey, Vice President for Benefits at PepsiCo, has been elected chairman of the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC).

February 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Delaware Investments, with $10 billion in assets, has named Rene Campis executive vice president of its retirement unit.

February 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to boost their defined contribution presence online, Barclays Global Investors, the nation's fourth largest defined contribution provider, has hired Sean...

When you're a $170 billion public fund, it's hard not to make waves. And when the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) made a $1 billion commitment to...

February 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Robert Angelica, chairman and chief executive officer of the AT&T Investment Management Corporation, was elected chairman of the Committee on the Investment of...

Few plan sponsors have been as vocal, or as visible, in their commitment to private equity investments as the $170 billion California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the...

February 1, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge fund Web site PlusFunds.com has tapped former ING Group executive John J. Pileggi as its new president and chief executive.

January 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) -- The U.S. Senate unanimously and expeditiously confirmed Elaine Chao as secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL) who sailed through her confirmation process...