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September 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Local San Diego lawmakers have authorized City Manager Lamont Ewell to develop several scenarios under which about $600 million would be poured into...

September 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The phrase "socially responsible investing" (SRI) means different things to different people, but to all it represents one main goal: the consideration of...

September 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The judge in a pension fraud case involving four former San Diego pension officials and the system's former counsel, has agreed to push...

September 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Provisions in the new Pension Protection Act (PPA) reform measure providing for new participant company stock diversification rights may have tripped up a...

September 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Accounting standards writers for government agency accountants are following their private-sector counterparts as they move toward requiring additional pension plan disclosures in governmental...

August 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Coinciding with its restatement of several years of earnings to compensate for options-related accounting problems, Brooks Automation Inc. reported two former directors and...

August 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), The SPARK (Society of Professional Administrators and Recordkeepers) Institute voiced concerns regarding...

August 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Los Angeles-based brokerage was the latest to be caught up in the regulatory net as federal regulators charged the company Wednesday with...

August 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Saying the risk of bankruptcy is high, and a Chapter 11 filing would make the shares worthless, the manager of Delta Air Lines'...

August 25, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts has released results for the 103 venture capital funds the Pension Reserve Investment Management board (PRIM) invested in from 1986 through 1998.

August 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused three former Janus Capital Group executives of being involved in improper mutual fund trading deals.

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's Pension Protection Fund (PPF) wants to introduce a risk-adjusted charge to retirement plans by the 2006 -2007 financial year, Reuters reports.

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - TIAA-CREF has proposed substantial fee hikes for some of its funds that would almost quadruple annual costs.

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), a corporate research firm, will offload its commercial proxy voting and screening business to Institutional Shareholder Services...

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are cutting back on granting stock options and making reductions in Employee Stock Purchase Plans (ESPP) in response to the Financial Accounting...

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) of Ohio is ending its relationship with Allegiant Asset Management Group due to investment losses in a...

June 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US institutional investors slashed their soft-dollar spending by 10% during the first quarter of 2005 over a year earlier, but many have put...

January 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Global equity markets turned in a strong 2005 performance despite a series of potentially negative events, Standard & Poor's reported.

January 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Maryland Chamber of Commerce has declared that Maryland's Fair Share Health Care Act, or 'Wal-Mart Bill', is preempted by a provision of...

June 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Segal Advisors 2005 Survey of Multiemployer Pension Funds' Investment Performance found that the median returns of the funds in the survey exceeded...