Latest News

July 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Heavy weightings in growth stocks rather than value may be holding back the full earning potential of socially responsible mutual funds.

July 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to add transparency and enhanced liquidity to the Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) market, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) has started...

July 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to add transparency and enhanced liquidity to the Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) market, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) has started...

July 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The General Accounting Office (GAO), has thrown its support behind the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) independent efforts to require the mandatory expensing...

July 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Iowa's 529 college savings plan has expanded its investment lineup to 12 options from just four previously.

July 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy this week announced a broad four-point reform program for the city's long-battered pension system that includes borrowing at...

July 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer is waiving certain penalties and extending certain deadlines for filing the required annual Form 5500 for employers in several...

July 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The audit of Indiana's public pension fund found some significant and alarming problems, but the Public Employees' Retirement Fund (PERF) executive director said...

September 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar is beefing up its data offering lineup with the acquisition of the ePIPER separate account database.

September 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On Friday the Internal Revenue Service published guidance on key interest rates used in US pension fund calculations.

September 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If you're still scratching your head about the new overtime rules, the government has now unveiled a new online tool to help.

June 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) In early March, Watson Wyatt Worldwide sponsored their annual Global Asset Study (GAS) meeting in the U.S. as it has been doing for approximately...

June 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sarbanes-Oxley has been a success if Congress' intent was quantity of whistleblower suits, however the quality of those claims can be considered questionable.

June 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania's two largest retirement funds have turned to the state's appeals court to prevent the state's auditor general from examining the retirement systems'...

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If the Maryland state employee pension board is serious about strengthening the retirement system's chief executive, it should hand over some of the...

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The bitter cat fight over who should investigate why two state of Pennsylvania public pension funds lost about $20 billion in 2002 continues...

April 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a move to expand its institutional equities trading and sales operations, Schwab Capital Markets LP, a unit of Charles Schwab Corp, has...

April 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Xerox Corp has announced plans to record a first quarter charge of $183 million, or 25 cents a share, for litigation tied to...

April 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US is heading towards adoption of UK-style pension accounting as part of efforts to achieve convergence between US and international financial reporting...

April 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Putnam Investments has not only reached a record breaking settlement in terms of severity of the monetary fine in relation to actual investor...