Administration

December 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's accounting rulemakers have given tentative approval to a plan requiring many US public companies cutting back pensions, retiree health care or...

November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study from the Investors Action Foundation (IAF) shows that if a windfall profits tax on oil companies is approved, retirement accounts could...

November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ULLICO Inc. has reached a settlement with its former president, chairman, and chief executive of charges he breached his fiduciary duties to the...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Commission to Strengthen and Secure the Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) in Colorado has presented its final report of major reform recommendations...

September 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK pension fund investment managers pulled 20 billion pounds ($36 billion) out of stocks between 2002 and 2004 and poured the assets into...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Research from Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Iowa suggests that emotions get in the way of making prudent financial...

September 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a move that further signals a shift away from cottage industry and into the mainstream for hedge funds, JP Morgan Chase &...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eight former executives of Marsh Inc. have been indicted by a New York state grand jury on charges they were part of a...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Joseph Cari, an attorney for the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) and former finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee pleaded guilty to...

September 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Complaining of restrictions placed on 'short-trading' in their 401(k) and 457 plans, a group of 325 state, county and city employees in Utah...

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is issuing additional guidance on the definition of grant date when awarding employee stock options.

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have censured OppenheimerFunds Inc., mutual fund unit of MassMutual Financial Group, and agreed to change the way it pays brokers.

September 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day after two major US airlines turned to US Bankruptcy Court for protection from their creditors, the head of the nation's private-sector...

August 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A North Carolina Treasurer's Office employee who helps manage the state's pension fund investments has been allowed to also work for firms managing...

August 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Indiana's Public Employees' Retirement Fund paid its former chief investment officer $212,000 to leave in a secret settlement brokered two years ago that...

August 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers suing an Indianapolis power company won a significant legal battle when a federal judge ruled the workers' allegations executives dumped company stock...

August 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Myra R. Drucker, Richard B. Worley, and Charles E. Haldeman, Jr. have been added to the trustee nominee list for Putnam Funds, joining...

August 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The suit brought against WorldCom's securities and accounting firms by the Alabama state pension fund has been cleared for an October 18th start...

August 27, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A split Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has retreated a bit on its planned stock option expensing plan by deciding to stick with...

August 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued a proposed FASB staff position (FSP) making technical corrections to FAS 123, which requires reporting...