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March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two former executives at Knight Securities have been charged by the NASD with supervisory violations related to the firm's fraudulent sales to institutional...

March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After losing $3 million in a pension fund investment, the Bay City (Michigan) Police and Fire Retirees Association has sued its pension board...

March 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) is investigating six large securities firms to see whether they sold 529 plan accounts to college...

March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts Attorney General has demanded data and documents from insurer MetLife Inc. about the company's business bids and quotes submitted to potential...

March 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ullico's Board of Directors has voted to release a special counsel's report that found widespread breaches of fiduciary duty involving stock trades by...

March 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - James Tambone, Louis Tasiopoulos and Joseph Palombo are the latest high level exits related to the ongoing market timing and late trading investigations...

February 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Research Investment Services (SSR) has been slapped with a $1 million fine for "failing to prevent market timing of State Street...

February 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) earned a whopping 23.3% 2003 return, outperforming its benchmark by over 200 basis points.

February 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The European Union has adopted new accounting rules that will require European-listed companies to expense stock option awards.

February 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co's variable life insurance policies have come under scrutiny after complaints from policyholders surfaced of being misled into think...

February 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Electric Power Company Inc (AEP) has agreed to prepare a report on its environmental performance for investors, rather than face a...

February 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD has announced that its TRACE - for Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine - now has real-time dissemination of transaction and price data...

February 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As of January 1, 2005, companies using international accounting standards will be required to treat stock options as an expense.

February 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Missouri on Monday fired Paribas Capital as an approved broker-dealer for its $2.9 billion pension fund because of its French...

February 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eastman Kodak Co. will treat employee stock options as an every day - rather than special - expense beginning next year, which is...

February 19, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After a judge ruled public pension funds could not be used to pay legal fees in a federal civil racketeering suit, the Luzerne...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld a decision by the administrator of an employer severance plan for turning down benefits to a fired...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Taxpayers would be allowed to roll over money into a spouse's retirement savings account in another qualified plan or an IRA under a...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new bill now before Congress would allow a minimum credit against the alternative minimum tax when stock from an incentive stock option...

January 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HR officials who find out that an employee's social security number isn't correctly recorded on a W-2 form can withhold tax from the...