Administration

June 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Looking for alternative investment strategies to reverse three years of declines, the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) has announced plans to invest $1 billion...

May 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federated Investors, one of the fund families implicated in the mutual-fund trading scandal, is adding redemption fees to nine funds to combat short-term...

May 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The new head of the Ohio State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) - already hit hard by a lavish spending scandal - has okayed...

May 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has issued guidance on other postemployment benefits provided to public employees as part of their compensation for...

May 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has beaten back an effort by state pension funds to recover damages for WorldCom Inc. bondholders in state court...

May 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Settlements have been reached between Enron and current and former participants in the company's retirement plan and the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL).

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) continues to show its willingness to throw its considerable weight around as the 2004 annual meeting season...

April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc and Securian Financial Group have announced an alliance that will place Waddell & Reed in the adviser role...

April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Verizon Communications shareholders voted to limit the size of severance packages granted to the company's senior executives.

April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewitt Associates has expanded its growing outsourcing business, this morning announcing an agreement to acquire Atlanta-based Northern Trust Retirement Consulting (NTRC).

April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders at General Electric Co rejected two proposals, albeit by slim margins, designed to reform executive compensation.

April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Intel Chief Executive Craig Barrett suggests CEOs may refuse to certify financial results if stock option expensing is forced upon them.

April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - What do the AIDS epidemic in Africa and soft drink sales have in common? Not much you might think, but then some institutional...

April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day after the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) endorsed requiring companies to treat stock option grants as expenses, Knight Ridder fended off...

April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's said 2002 saw a $206 billion pension shortfall among the companies in the S&P 500.

April 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate managers would be banned from strong-arming auditors reviewing their books under one of two rules green lighted Thursday by the US Securities...

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With pension reform stalled in the legislature, Ohio Governor Bob Taft has called on the state's five public-employee retirement systems to enact ethical...

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors, and institutional investors in particular, have been increasingly vocal of late. But they may have to watch what they say.

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many employees may spend their days fretting about money, but those worries apparently don't extend to Chinese Americans, according to a new survey.

April 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The investment manager and independent fiduciary for the company stock fund in W.R. Grace & Co.'s 401(k) plan has sold "substantially all" of...