Deals and People

December 4, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kent Buckles has been appointed President and CEO of retirement financial services group Investmart, effective immediately.

November 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's Social Security Commission will propose shrinking benefits for most future retirees, while allowing them to invest part of their payroll taxes...

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Labor Secretary Elaine Chao announced that Steven Kandarian has been tapped to head up the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group's board has elected J. Barry Griswell, the group's president and chief executive officer, as chairman.

November 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ann Colgrove has been appointed Director of the Office of Communications and Legislative Affairs (OCLA) at the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

November 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - PricewaterhouseCoopers' board has chosen Samuel DiPiazza to fill the shoes of James Schiro, the firm's outgoing chief executive officer.

November 12, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Craig Hoffman, vice president and general counsel of SunGard Corbel has begun his one-year term as president of the American Society of Pension...

November 12, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - William L Tindall, senior vice president of Retirement Services at American United Life Insurance Co has been elected chairman of the LIMRA International Board...

November 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United Auto Workers' (UAW) 19-member executive board unanimously nominated Ron Gettelfinger for the presidency of the powerful US trade union in a...

November 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Charles H. Self III has been named chief investment officer of the $23 billion Illinois Teachers? Retirement System, effective December 1.

October 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Frank Russell Company has tapped Donald G. Gartlan, Jr. to lead its charge into the managed accounts business with Fidelity Investments Institutional Brokerage...

October 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Edmund Jenkins, chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), will retire at the end of his five-year term on June 30 next...

October 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has appointed Stephen Cutler as Enforcement Director.

October 24, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securian Financial Group has named Patrick A Mazorol chief executive of Securian Trust Company, a unit to be formed following Securian?s purchase of the...

October 15, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the first time in its 22-year history, members of the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) have elected a leadership slate made up...

October 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Securities and Exchange Commissioner Laura Unger plans to leave the agency by the close of 2001.

October 9, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Recently retired Bank of America Chairman Hugh McColl, 66, is back in business ? forming McColl Partners, a boutique mergers and acquisitions advisory...

October 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM) has hired former E*Trade executive Barry A. Schub, 47, to head its Retirement Services business. Schub takes...

October 3, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush has tapped former California State Treasurer Matt Fong, for appointment as Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Pension Benefit Guaranty...

October 2, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Online investment provider mPower has named Andrew Huddart as chief executive officer, effective immediately.