Administration

April 19 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has begun a search for up to six active equity managers to invest about 10% of its...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An announced share vote by the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) on Warren Buffett's re-election to the Coca-Cola board signals the giant...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has signed legislation that will allow three state pension funds to invest more freely in alternative assets.

April 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California State Controller and gubernatorial candidate Steve Westly steered the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) to invest in a fledgling venture capital...

April 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The University of California (UC) has announced that it will receive a $13.25 million settlement from Citigroup and its former Salomon Smith Barney...

April 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), the nation's second-largest public pension fund, signaled its intent Thursday to dump its holdings in firms...

April 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has given the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 90 days to consider public input about the costs of...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BISYS has announced that due to an ongoing investigation into its mutual fund services' business, its has launched a Board-led internal investigation and...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Express financial advisory unit is taking the unusual step of claiming in a federal court lawsuit that New Hampshire state securities...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Florida public pension fund can't pin its Enron losses on Alliance Capital Management, according to a state court jury.

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New England Pension Consultants (NEPC), for Vermont Treasurer Jeb Spaulding, has issued a Request for Information (RFI) from investment managers who focus on...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New Jersey federal judge has tapped four law firms as co-lead counsel in the case filed by pension funds and other investors...

April 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many firms are bringing outsourced functions back-in house, citing dissatisfaction with a lack of cost savings and a failure of the process to...

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has come out with its mandatory stock option expensing proposal, but Towers Perrin says the effect...

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined benefit schemes in the United States came back to domestic equities in 2003 at the expense of fixed-income holdings.

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees at U.S. companies discount the value of stock option grants by 30% to 50% relative to the options' actual value.

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 16 out of 100 workplaces connected to public stock market companies granted stock options in 2002 to more than half of their...

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reached a settlement agreement with Massachusetts Financial Services Co. (MFS) regarding payments the firm made...

March 31, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's accounting rulemaking body - the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) - has issued an Exposure Draft outlining the compulsory expensing of...

February 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill introduced by California Assemblyman Keith Richman proposes an outside audit of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) every three years.