Administration

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.

February 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securities class-action settlements reached a record level in 2005, according to a report from Cornerstone Research.

January 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Duff & Phelps has acquired Valuemetrics, a financial advisory firm specializing in valuation services, litigation support and ESOP advisory services.

January 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The fate of the United Airlines pilots' defined benefit pension would be left temporarily unresolved under a revised contract disclosed Wednesday that also...

January 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following the downgrading of the country's debt, Philippine officials are expressing concern that the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) will pull out...

January 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Dallas law firm has filed a series of lawsuits against mutual fund companies, alleging that they failed to collect money due to...

January 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A class-action securities lawsuit against Arthur Andersen has survived a legal challenge with a federal judge's ruling that a pension fund and other...

December 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HR and benefit consultant Watson Wyatt & Co., has gotten a subpoena from New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer about certain of...

December 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Department of Justice (DoJ) officials have delivered subpoenas to 12 current and former San Diego officials in a criminal investigation into the handling...

December 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has published a staff Technical Bulletin, Recognition of Pension and Other Postemployment Benefit (OPEB) Expenditures/Expense and Liabilities...

December 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has been put under the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) microscope, with the regulator taking testimony from numerous...

December 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The battle by four pension funds to give Walt Disney Co's shareholders more power to nominate board directors continued Wednesday as the funds...

November 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to stop market timing in retirement accounts, the T. Rowe Price Group Inc. will now charge investors a fee for...

November 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California state judge has declared as unconstitutional a plan to sell $525 million in bonds to cover part of the state's pension...

November 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Oregon state official this week slapped insurance broker Marsh USA Inc. with a $75,000 fine for overcharging 22 government agencies and not keeping...

November 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An independent fiduciary appointed to the United Airlines bankruptcy case is set to ask a US Bankruptcy Judge for permission to allow it...

October 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York City's five public pension funds have reached a $78.9 million settlement of a securities fraud lawsuit filed against a group of...

October 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 49.82% of votes received by long time California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) trustee Charles Valdes has triggered the fund's first runoff...

September 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Rampant news media predictions of a funding crisis by the agency that insures private pension plans are most likely off the mark.

September 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of a typical US pension plan fell 1.4% in August, according to the latest Mellon Pension Liability Indexes from Mellon...