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March 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bucking what appears to be a growing trend among public pension funds, on Friday, New York City Comptroller William Thompson said the Big...

March 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - High-risk equity positions handled by high-priced money managers costs two of Louisiana's pension systems $500 million over seven years.

March 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Arizona Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's ruling that Union pension funds waited too long to file suit seeking reimbursement for...

March 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a bevy of corporate scandals and the resulting Sarbanes-Oxley Act still ringing in their ears, corporate boards at US multinational companies have...

March 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Awareness of the growing mutual fund market-timing and late-trading scandal is prevalent among stock mutual fund investors and non investors alike.

March 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Democrats had a strong and visceral reaction to proposed health privacy rules issued by the Bush administration last week.

March 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently wrapped up an on-site investigation of The Hartford's mutual fund and annuity operations while a...

March 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal bankruptcy appeals court has held that an undistributed payment pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) from a retirement plan...

March 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A financial consultant employed by Citigroup Inc.'s Smith Barney unit arranged a $20-million deal to market time mutual funds, state and federal authorities...

March 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives has given a thumbs up to a bill creating a network of oversight groups to monitor reports of...

March 1, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - SBC Communications is implementing a new executive compensation system that would more closely link executive pay to the company's financial performance.

March 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nursing home industry is the first in a series of professions to get government guidelines on how employers can cut the number...

March 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It was a tough year for US markets, and also for the nation's pension plans, which, on average, missed targeted earnings projections for...

February 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has asked a federal judge in Los Angeles to appoint the pension fund as lead plaintiff...

January 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mutual funds investing in junk bonds pulled in $26.7 billion in 2003, AMG Data Services divulged.

February 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -LTV Steel says that all health care and life insurance benefits provided to hourly retirees will end on March 31, 2002.

January 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a 37.5% return for 2003, the SNL Equity REIT Index has outpaced the S&P 500 for the third consecutive year.

February 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American investors in increasing numbers are not only more comfortable with going online, but they're doing their investing via financial Web sites, a...

January 2, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs has been a systemwide crisis in recent years, a new study finds it is particularly problematic...

February 25, 2002 - Construction firm McDermott International will change its executive compensaiton packages.