Administration

January 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has turned its investigative eye to the relationship pension funds have with investment consulting firms.

December 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Standard & Poor's 500 pension underfunding level grew to a record $259 billion in 2003, as a year-long bull market did little...

December 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Indiana Public Employees' Retirement Fund (PERF) staffer and convicted identity thief Shaunna Stone has been sentenced to a little more than four...

December 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An internal review of employee trading records at Principal Financial Group Inc uncovered evidence that some workers engaged in market-timing activities.

December 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has handed down a revised FASB Statement Number 132 mandating increased defined benefit plan disclosures.

December 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York stock transfer agent has agreed to acquire a beleaguered Phoenix custodian/trustee heavily caught up in the ongoing mutual fund trading...

November 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Franklin Resources Inc. the largest publicly traded US money management firm, is apparently nearing a settlement with California officials over charges it improperly...

October 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock and bond orders for mutual funds sales are the latest questionable transaction to catch the eye of the Securities and Exchange Commission...

October 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As high-tech companies are running out of stock options, the stage is set for how they will defend their current practice of not...

October 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When it appears in the US Bankruptcy Court on Monday, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) hopes to be awarded between $12 million...

September 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A committee of former Enron Corp. workers has received the high sign from a US Bankruptcy Judge to go after $53 million in...

September 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wilshire Associates Inc has come out with both guns blazing in defense of allegations in a recently published MONEY magazine story contending the...

September 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) is calling on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to reform its current corporate governance structure.

September 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Ohio judge has turned aside a lawsuit by the city of Cincinnati pension fund trustees seeking to force the city to return...

September 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pioneer Investments Management Inc. has reached a preliminary deal to acquire two Oak Ridge mutual funds.

September 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Montana public employers may get hit with a whopping 29% hike in pension contributions to help make up for stock losses at the...

August 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension payments to public sector employees in the United Kingdom cost £580 billion ($1.1 trillion).

August 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Peter Butler and Steve Brown left their posts at Hermes Focus Asset Management (HFAM) after Hermes Pensions Management CEO Tony Watson decided to...

August 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois (TRS) keeps a close eye on INVESCO and Northern Trust Global Investments the...

August 11, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The markets might have shown some strength in 2003, but interest rate changes and current accounting rules increased pension obligations to keep most...