Administration

June 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Charles Schwab Corp's US Trust unit has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Private Asset Management unit of State Street Corp.

June 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the wake of a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) warning about potential conflicts of interest among investment consultants, federal regulators have released...

June 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ever escalating pension fund liabilities in state and local governments may now have a downstream effect on the credit rating of municipal bonds.

May 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funding ratio for corporate defined benefit plans in the S&P 500 jumped to 89% on the back of a $139-billion growth in...

May 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Goldman Sachs research report has good news on the defined benefit funding front: the worst of the perfect pension storm is...

April 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The seven-year HR outsourcing deal with Bank of America was obviously a big win for Fidelity Investments, but it also meant some significant...

April 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies allowing their chief executive personal use of a corporate aircraft show average shareholder returns that underperform market benchmarks by more than 4%...

April 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new union-commissioned study of the ailing US pension fund system says money managers overstayed their welcome as the equity market tanked and...

April 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Delta Airlines' shareholders have passed two proposals requiring stock option expensing and shareholder approval of executive severance packages.

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Investment Dealers Association of Canada (IDA) will return $7.2 million to 17 mutual fund companies for reimbursement to pay back investors for...

April 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vanguard is adding a 2% redemption fee to nine international equity funds held less than two months to discourage investors from exploiting time...

April 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While US Treasury Department officials are comfortable with their decision four years ago to no longer issue the 30-year bond , they continue...

April 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The much-discussed reform efforts at the state of Oregon's long-ailing Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) are moving ever closer to reality with a...

April 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unanimously approved regulations requiring mutual funds to clearly disclose their market timing policies.

April 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite urging from the company's directors to vote down the measure, shareholders at Apple Computer have approved a resolution calling for the company...

March 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Electronic agency brokerage Instinet Group has worked out a deal with Reuters to buy Bridge Trading Company a soft-dollar institutional securities execution broker,...

March 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Public pension fund's home-state private equity investments tend to underperform, a sign that political pressure can lead some funds to make poor investment...

March 25, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average annual expense ratio of US mutual funds rose from 1.24% in 2001 to 1.26% last year.

March 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JP Morgan will shed its private equity arm next year, according to sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

March 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Hartford Financial Services Group has disclosed that is has reached an agreement in principle to compensate its mutual fund investors for harm...