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March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Scudder Investments has launched the Scudder Commodity Securities Fund.

March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AllianceBernstein Investment Research and Management has added three new fund share classes for plan sponsor clients.

July 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK Private equity firm Permira is asking potential financiers of a renewed bid for WH Smith to agree that that all debts to...

March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has turned away efforts by an employee of a Pennsylvania Wal-Mart to revive her negligence suit that claimed the...

March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two Illinois residents have been charged with stealing more than $100,000 from a Fidelity Investments 401(k) account by having it transferred to a...

March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has thrown out part of a lower court's ruling that a Ohio company's state law claims against its employee...

March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Democratic US senator used a hearing on the Administration's pension reform proposal last week to urge that the proposal's executive compensation limit...

March 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer can't retroactively change a former worker's retirement date necessary for the worker to get credit for full 30-year pension, a West...

July 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators are taking another run at five former Prudential Securities brokers and their manager in Boston in a $1.3 billion market timing...

June 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The San Antonio public-utility employees pension fund has fired a money management firm after its two principals and founders were charged last week...

June 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former WorldCom executives have hammered out a deal to settle part of an employee lawsuit filed over the billions of dollars in lost...

June 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge dismissed a suit brought by regulators alleging six former brokers and a branch manager at Prudential Securities Inc.'s Boston office...

June 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - William Galvin, secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and an active player in the ongoing mutual fund trading scandal, on Tuesday issued a...

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ohio Gvernor Bob Taft has quelled any further investigations into the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) by vetoing budget language that would have...

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly every senior level financial executive recently said they receive inaccurate cost information at their companies.

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension fraud indictments involving Maryland's state pension fund have expanded to include members of the pension fund board.

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The steady stream of private sector defined benefit pension plans taken over by the federal pension insurer continues to push the agency further...

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The trustees of the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System (KTRS) have backed the idea advanced by Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson to allocate a portion...

June 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Birmingham, Alabama has named that state's public pension system as the lead plaintiff in suits filed by bondholders against...

May 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alaska lawmakers' efforts to reform the state's pensions systems took a detour Monday after a state House staff member discovered a statute requiring...