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June 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Professional services firm, Ernst & Young developed "Working Moms Network" (WMN) to support new, expectant and veteran mothers, giving them resources, networking and...

June 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Verizon Communications, Inc. has agreed to pay $48.9 million in credit to the pension accounts of thousands of former and current female employees...

April 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senior finance executives are flocking to support the new Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) rule requiring balance sheet expensing for their pensions and...

April 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A white paper from the Chubb group of Insurance Companies warns that having company stock in a employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) or...

April 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Not everyone is a fan of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) wielding its considerable clout to advance corporate governance issues.

April 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An investor in a Goldman Sachs mutual fund has sued the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and several of its units, charging that the...

April 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maryland's state employee pension fund has allocated $165 million of its $32 billion to private equity and venture capital funds, indicating a continuing...

April 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has requested more information about the mutual fund trading practices at Invesco Funds Group, joining a long...

April 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Luzerne County Retirement Board is taking its search for a pension fund adviser public.

April 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Calling attention to the practice of corporations freezing pensions while CEOs rack up large retirement packages, the AFL-CIO included information on CEO pensions...

April 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A decision on whether to require state pension funds to "Buy Ohio" has reached an impasse.

April 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404 compliance cost companies less in year two of adoption than in year one, according to a survey by Financial...

April 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD has filed a complaint against A.B. Watley Direct, Inc. of New York, and its former registered representatives, Robert Conway and Kenneth Ng,...

April 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For reasons as yet unclear, the New York State Teachers' Retirement System has pulled out of an already announced $400 million class-action suit...

March 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Conseco Inc. has announced that it has reached a settlement with employees who lost money investing retirement assets in company stock as the...

March 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northwest Airlines has turned to a US Bankruptcy judge to block government investigators from getting documents about its pension plans, its business reorganization...

March 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National City Bank in Ohio is claiming that it has not interfered with the transfer of pension plan records to the new plan...

March 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Chairman and CEO Ronald Logue got an extra $1.5 million 2004 bonus for a yearly total of about $6 million, the...

March 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Diego County retirement board has voted unanimously against Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to overhaul the state's defined benefit pension plan.

March 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Executive compensation and benefits consulting firm Clark Consulting acknowledged Friday that it had received a subpoena from New York state Attorney General Eliot...