Administration

May 20, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a new study, “Rethinking Lifecycle Funds,” Financial Research Corporation says that while target-date funds are being marketed as a total retirement solution,...

May 19, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Goldman Sachs, now fighting a U.S. government fraud lawsuit over whether it misled investors, is apparently making a serious play for more 401(k)...

May 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A study by CBIZ Human Capital Services of St. Louis makes a case for giving Missouri State Employees Retirement System staff higher base...

May 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Booz & Company’s latest study of CEO succession found that corporate boards continue to hire insiders, are more often splitting the CEO/Chairman role,...

May 18, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors have sought refuge in U.S. markets in the week that eurozone states delivered a financial package to allay sovereign debt concerns, according...

May 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly four out of five private equity investors, or limited partners (LPs), say their allocations to the asset class would remain at current...

May 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A coalition of Rhode Island public employee unions has gone to court to challenge state benefit cutbacks.

May 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New Jersey Attorney General Paula T. Dow has asserted that changes in government worker pensions and benefits should not be disturbed in court...

May 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Principal has made another liquidation instalment on its frozen real estate fund.  

May 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Tough proposed regulations by the European Union (EU) of hedge funds and private equity concerns may represent an early political defeat for U.K....

May 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A survey released by a Washington, D.C. trade group representing multiemployer plans said the value of assets in those plans plummeted an average...

May 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Ivy Asset Management, a unit of Bank of New York Mellon, is facing a lawsuit by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo related...

May 11, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate Boards are taking a bigger role in setting and enforcing performance standards, according to a new survey by independent compensation consultants Pearl...

May 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BlackRock Inc. and the largest U.S. business lobby groups are fighting to strike a provision in the financial regulations overhaul legislation that they...

May 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A plunge in the Aa corporate discount rate in April drove liabilities higher and the funded status lower for the typical U.S. corporate...

May 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Point-of-sale commissions continue to fade from the mutual fund sales process as advisers increasingly sell funds in fee-for-advice arrangements, according to a new...

May 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – West Warwick, Rhode Island, officials have asked the state pension board’s real estate consultant to examine a controversial $3-million real estate investment. 

May 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pennsylvania state Senate has approved a measure mandating that the Keystone State’s two largest pension funds and the state’s Treasury Department divest...

May 10, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is proposing that those working in the Western Pennsylvania city should be forced to pay a 0.3% income tax...

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