Administration

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of current and former employees of Providian Financial Corp. have filed an ERISA fraud lawsuit against the credit card issuer, charging...

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York pension fund consultant has admitted guilt in a federal charge of paying kickbacks to a Teamsters pension fund trustee, according...

February 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the nation's largest pension fund with over $165 billion in assets, has completed its international manager...

February 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds gained $2.7 billion during the fourth quarter of 2000 to bring the total in all hedge funds to about $8 billion,...

February 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Union Bank of Switzerland is finalizing its consolidation plans by combining Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management Inc. with the bank's existing asset management business.

January 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - GoldK, a retirement plan provider, acquired Retirement Horizons Inc. (RHI), a benefits consultant specializing in retirement plan solutions - extending GoldK's reach in...

January 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National health spending increased to 6.9% in 200 from 5.7% in 1999, the greatest surge in spending seen since 1988 according to the...

January 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In its first expansion outside the US, CitiStreet plans to offer full services for retirement funds and their participants in Australia.

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most plan sponsors have yet to inform their participants about the changes that the Economic Growth & Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (EGTRRA) has...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three-quarters of money managers expect their institutional clients to turn up the pressure on listed companies on corporate governance and disclosure issues in...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawyers for LTV Corp., one of a growing number of American steel companies now bankrupt, told a federal bankruptcy judge that the company...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Yet another employer with troubled stock could find itself under the piercing scrutiny of a participant lawsuit, as law firm Keller Rohrback says...

December 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The president of a New York investment consulting firm has been charged with paying illegal kickbacks to a union pension fund trustee.

November 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Computershare, Ltd. will acquire Charles Schwab's employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) clients.

November 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - General Electric announced a host of changes to its corporate governance practices, which the Fairfield, Connecticut company said would strengthen its board of...

November 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF), TIAA-CREF's investment component, have turned aside four resolutions including those urging CREF to divest its...

November 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators are close to publishing new rules on the responsibility of the financial markets to have contingency planning in place for emergencies...

November 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a civil fraud complaint against hedge fund company Beacon Hill Asset Management

November 19, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 88% of investment professionals classify employee stock options grants as compensation - and believe that they should be recognized as an expense in...

November 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Oak Brook, Illinois-based Van Kampen Management has sold a unit that specializes in managing fixed-income investments for pension funds, insurers and wealthy individuals...