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June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System's (CalPERS) policy of automatically withholding board of director proxy votes when corporate auditors perform nonaudit work is...

April 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Credit Suisse's Transition Management group has unveiled SponsorCross, a trading crossing product.

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal authorities have now indicted a Boca Raton, Florida brokerage firm on securities and wire fraud charges adding to the late trading and...

June 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After MassMutual Financial Group refused a state of Massachusetts request for documents about recently fired CEO Robert O'Connell's alleged misconduct, the company has...

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United National Retirement Fund and Plumbers and Pipe-Fitters National Pension Fund have filed a lawsuit against Royal Dutch/Shell seeking the disgorgement of...

June 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments plans on paying for extra market data information with cash, in lieu of through soft-dollar arrangements.

April 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of New York has held a father and son both liable for failing to forward...

April 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government's personnel agency has asked Congress for a special $26.7 million appropriation for a "retirement systems modernization project."

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While only a scant 14% of 401(k) plan participants recently polled have purchased other products from their employer's plan provider, most of those...

April 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Connecticut has ruled that a FleetBoston Financial Corp. employee can continue to pursue her claims...

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responding to complaints that implementing Sarbanes-Oxley is proving too onerous and expensive, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCOAB) has issued recommendations on...

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A one-time trader for Canary Capital Partners testified that former Bank of America Corp. broker Theodore Sihpol was the bank's "point person" in...

April 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey by Salary.com shows that the majority of employers affected by last year's hurricanes retained their employees and compensation benefits and...

April 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial services companies are fighting to keep a provision in the US House pension reform measure passed last year dealing with the Employee...

April 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts legislature has passed a bill that requires all residents to obtain health insurance by July 1, 2007.

May 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Canadian government has proposed changes to pension funding rules that would give defined benefit plan sponsors more time and flexibility in making...

April 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers assigned the task of reconciling the two major pension reform bills passed last year are considering an expansion of the provision for...

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A quick glance at the headlines might well fan concerns about the impact of the United Airlines pension termination on the nation's private...

April 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JPMorgan Retirement Plan Services has announced the launch of its new service philosophy for plan sponsors, Best Plan in America.

May 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Edward Stern, the former hedge fund manager at the center of the mutual fund trading scandal, took the stand on Friday.