S&P 1500 Pension Plans Hit Record Deficit
December 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Losses for pension plans sponsored by the nation's largest U.S. companies have turned a surplus...
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Atlanta Seeks Pension Diversification OK
December 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Atlanta officials have turned to state legislators for permission to boost their pension investments in...
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DC Most Prevalent among Corporates, DB among Multi-Employer Plans
November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey, not surprisingly, has found that corporate employers are most likely to offer...
NJ Governor Proposes Local Government Pension Relief
November 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine introduced a proposal on Thursday to allow local governments...
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Random House Freezes DB
November 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The country's largest trade publisher, Random House Inc., has frozen the pensions of its current...
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Morningstar to Provide Pensions, Endowments, Foundations Info
November 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Morningstar, Inc. has announced it is creating a comprehensive database for U.S. pensions, endowments, and...
Public Plan Stock Investments See 35% Decline
November 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The stock investments of state and local government retirement systems have declined 35% so far...
100 Largest Pensions Face Record Loss in October
November 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index, shows the nation's 100 largest defined benefit pension plans...
New BT Union Deal Calls for Pension Changes
November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New staff at British Telecom will have to work an extra five years before they...
North Carolina's Moore Calls for Wachovia Buyout Fight
November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Outgoing North Carolina Treasurer Richard Moore said he will instruct that the shares of Wachovia...
Year-to-Date Global Pension Fund Returns Total $4T
November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension fund returns fell by more than 20% on average between January and October -...
Mayors to U.S. Treasury: We Need Pension Help from Bailout
November 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government's giant financial bailout designed to combat the nation's financial crisis took on...
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Retirement Industry Reps Optimistic about Future Trends
November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite volatile investment markets, the freezing and terminating of defined benefit plans, and limited formation...
San Diego's Aguirre Turned out of Office as City Attorney
November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In addition to voting for the next president, San Diego voters last week turned out...
Yellow Pages Publisher Announces Pension Freeze
November 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - R.H. Donnelley, the Cary, North Carolina-based publisher of the Yellow Pages, will freeze its pension...
Argentina Pension Nationalism Clears Another Hurdle
November 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill to nationalize $23 billion in private pension funds easily won approval in Argentina's...
Illinois TRS Funding Method Challenge Rebuffed
November 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Illinois state judge has thrown out a lawsuit that challenges how the state funds...
Hearing Produces Mixed Results in San Diego Case
November 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has indicated that some allegations filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Pension Plan Funding Status Takes a Dive in October
November 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Funding ratios at the typical U.S. corporate pension plan fell 3.7% in October, according to...
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Most UK Pension Sponsors Still not Keen on Pension Buyouts
November 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Only one-in-five (20%) large UK corporate pension plan sponsors are giving serious thought to selling...