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July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thousands of former Enron Corp. employees may have to pay back a portion of the first payment they received as part of a...

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors in one U.S. hedge fund have been blocked from pulling out their money while another fund has been completely closed - both...

May 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Bank of America (BoA) Corp. broker Theodore Sihpol may have helped a hedge fund execute trades after market hours, but he never...

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors in one U.S. hedge fund have been blocked from pulling out their money while another fund has been completely closed - both...

May 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Invesmart said Tuesday that its Retirement Portfolio Cost Barometer indicates that a "reasonable standard" for annual plan participant fees is 58 bps -...

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dell notified regulators Monday that it would have to delay the filing of its 401(k) plan financial statement as it waits for the...

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher has summoned state lawmakers for a special legislative session to consider a ban on domestic partner insurance at state-run...

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Bank N.A. has agreed to purchase ABN AMRO's 50% share in ABN AMRO Mellon Global Securities Services B.V., provider of global custody...

May 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Indiana Public Employees Retirement Fund (PERF), rocked several years ago by a series of scandals that put three former workers in jail,...

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) is asking for input from users of governmental pension financial statements about the effectiveness of accounting standards.

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SGAM Alternative Investments (SGAM AI) has announced plans to offer Shariah-compliant index funds linked to Standard & Poor's Shariah indexes.

July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three of the funds in the federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) suffered losses in June, with only the government securities (G) fund and...

May 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Democrats in the Illinois state legislature on Sunday rallied behind a budget plan that slashes pension payments in favor of funding other state...

April 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management Study finds the institutional activism practiced by the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)...

April 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New pension and other post-employment benefits (OPEB) accounting rules proposed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) could cut shareholders' equity of Fortune...

April 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has released its 2006 Focus list, identifying six US companies with poor financial and corporate governance...

April 19, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal bankruptcy judge has given a bankrupt Pittsburgh brewery and federal officials until Friday to work out a procedure for transferring the...

July 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent proposal introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives is meant to propel employees to allocate money for education costs and prompt...

July 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an employer did not wrongfully deny two Bank One employees the right to severance...

July 3, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in California has upheld a decision by a disability benefit plan's claims administrator to cut off benefits despite a worker's...