Administration

March 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Final salary pension determinations for California public employees would be based on a three-year rather than a one-year average under a slate of...

March 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northwest Airlines has turned to a US Bankruptcy judge to block government investigators from getting documents about its pension plans, its business reorganization...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it will not require Aetna Inc. to hear a shareholder vote on the company's...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three of Ohio's public retirement systems have been appointed lead plaintiff in a securities class action lawsuit against giant insurer American International Group,...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Express financial advisors got secret incentives to push the firm's own poorly performing mutual funds rather than recommending competitors' investment options, regulators...

February 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Indiana pension fund has filed suit against a Covington, Kentucky-based firm - the nation's largest supplier of prescriptions drugs to nursing homes...

February 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SPARK Institute has released sample contract language for retirement plan service providers to use in compliance with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...

February 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Confederation of British Industry's (CBI) response to the UK Pension Regulator's proposals for funding standards warned they could put many companies in...

February 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A record 31 shareholder resolutions have been filed regarding global warming in the 2005 proxy season, according to investor group Ceres.

February 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Yields on 30-year bonds dropped more than three-quarters of a percentage point since the US Treasury's last sale of the bonds in August...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Criminal charges against Richard Strong, founder of Strong Capital Management, may soon be forthcoming from a New York state grand jury that has...

January 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the first time, a federal appellate court has ruled that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's whistleblower protection provision does not apply to foreign citizens...

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Bush Administration's proposal to shore up the nation's private pension system will have quite the opposite effect, according to the United Auto...

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi has sent a proposal to state Legislators and Governor George Pataki that would loosen the current investment...

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Last week, at Merrill Lynch World Headquarters in New York, Robert Doll, president and chief investment officer of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, made his annual...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff is suggesting that the agency prohibit mutual funds' special payments made to brokerages in exchange for directing clients...

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The current turmoil surrounding the City of San Diego's pension fund was stirred a little faster on Friday with new allegations from City...

January 30, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US fund managers were more underweight in bonds in January than in December, were slightly less overweight in equities than in the month...

January 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon Financial Corporation has announced that it has acquired DPM, a hedge fund administrator.

December 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though Calvert typically shines its socially responsible investing (SRI) spotlight on companies in which it invests, the Bethesda, Maryland fund family has...