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April 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders at SBC Communications Inc voted down a proposal aimed at linking executive compensation more closely to performance at the company.

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—The nation's largest pension fund, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has postponed its decision regarding whether or not to continue investment in the...

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what it described as "new standards for the mutual fund industry", MFS Investment Management today threw down a new gauntlet.

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sprint Corp's shareholders will vote on a proposal at this year's annual shareholder meeting to further examine the company's offshoring efforts.

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has announced that it has received a subpoena from New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aon Corp. has agreed to pay $190 million to end a bid-rigging investigation brought on by three states.

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the largest US public pension fund, will withhold votes for four Applied Materials Inc. directors up for election March...

March 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Middlesex Retirement System has to turn over documents about its substantial 2003 losses, a Massachusetts judge ruled.

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking into the fees charged by states in their 529 college savings plans.

March 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is being urged by yet another pension group to review six cases of blocked shareholder access to...

March 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The stocks of companies reporting substantial earnings from their pension plans were "systematically overvalued" in recent years.

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America and FleetBoston Financial yesterday agreed to pay $675 million to resolve charges that they helped favored clients trade mutual funds...

March 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State retirement systems continued to struggle with slumping asset values and larger liabilities, and had twice as big a shortfall in 2003 as...

March 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lucent Technologies has reached a $600 million settlement in accounting fraud class action lawsuits.

March 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The defined contribution arrangement that was agreed to by US Airways and its pilots union receives no objections from the Pension Benefit Guaranty...

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Like many a non-market related market barometer, the so-called Super Bowl indicator has fallen on hard times of late.

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Congressional Research Service has released a report on proposed individual accounts in Social Security, outlining possible benefits and drawbacks to the plan.

February 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans may have voiced confidence in the Social Security system in a survey, but that's not the whole story.

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The next time a globetrotting member of the city of Detroit pension board wants to travel out of state on official business, it...

February 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has turned to Madison Avenue in its latest attempts to get Tyco International back on American...