Administration

March 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD has fined Concord, New Hampshire-based trader/broker Jefferson Pilot Variable Corporation $325,000 for failing to stop market-timers in sub-accounts of its Ensemble series...

March 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A majority of institutional investors plan to add to their hedge fund holdings over the next three years as they continue searching for...

March 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A panel of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has endorsed a plan to reduce volatility in government contributions to the massive...

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In-the-money value of unexercised stock options for CEOs more than doubled in 2004, Watson Wyatt reported.

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wachovia Securities and the NASD have opened investigations into one of the brokerage's Westlake Village, California offices over possible stock trading abuses.

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The NASD has charged American Funds Distributors, Inc. (AFD) with violating NASD's Anti-Reciprocal Rule by directing approximately $100 million in brokerage commissions to...

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Board of Administration at the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has voted 9-3 to oppose legislation calling for a constitutional amendment...

January 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Marshall & Ilsley Corp. (M&I), a banking and financial services company, filed suit against Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. in federal court in...

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are considering legal action against the Canadian Imperial Bank...

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Energy giant ExxonMobil has agreed to adopt the so-called MacBride Principles on equal employment opportunities for companies doing business in Northern Ireland after...

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A United States Senate panel has touched off an examination into mutual fund fees and possible action to mandate changes in fee structures...

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Janus Capital Group, the Denver-based mutual fund company caught up in the ongoing fund trading scandal, may take the early redemption fee route...

January 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it audited two collapsed mutual funds.

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The long-rumored $225 million settlement of improper-trading charges against mutual-fund giant Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) has apparently been pushed back, according to a...

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is moving to assume responsibility for the pension of 6,100 workers and retirees of bankrupt Cone...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Montana's House of Representatives approved 51-49 a measure that will use $125 million of the state's money to help decrease the public retirement...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lipper reports that 2,830 funds reduced their management fees in 2004, compared with 622 that did so in 2003.

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The rampant money troubles at General Motors have come home to roost for the giant automaker's K plan for salaried workers with a...

December 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - British life insurance giant Britannic Assurance has moved two-thirds of its pension money from equities to bonds, a move that might be followed...

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Citing new research about the connection between skyrocketing CEO pay and company performance, a group of pension funds has formally requested that federal...