Administration

July 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A key figure in the scandalous collapse of WorldCom Inc., and a group of other company officials have hammered out a $51-million settlement...

July 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASDAQ market-maker Knight Trading Group Inc has reached an agreement with regulators related to improper trading activity.

July 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt has weighed into the fray over excessive executive compensation packages with a suggestion that a...

July 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The high technology industry is reducing it use of broad-based stock options as mandatory stock option expensing looms on the horizon.

July 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wells Fargo has inked an agreement to buy an investment advisory firm in the Silicon Valley - one that is expected to strengthen...

July 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One of the industry's leading transition management consultants is said to be in the middle of acquisition talks.

July 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Franklin Templeton Investments announced that it had merged its Strategic Alliances and Defined Contribution Services areas to form the Retirement Division of Franklin...

June 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NCR Corp has rung up the end of its corporate defined benefit plan, choosing instead to offer only 401(k) plans to about 9,200...

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has determined that stock-option expensing methods will be the same for both employee and non-employee workers.

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While giving consumers the maximum amount of choice might seem like an effective strategy, a new research report suggests doing that in defined...

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fitch Ratings Corp. has jumped on the General Motors Corporation (GM) senior unsecured debt downgrade wagon, lowering the issues to BBB+ from A-...

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Calvert, manager of a family of socially responsible mutual funds, has updated its proxy voting guidelines with a "sustainable governance" model.

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Battle weary global money managers are turning their attention, and more importantly assets, toward alternative investments in hopes of relighting the positive return...

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials at the problem-plagued Thrift Savings Plan may well be thinking, "What did I do to deserve this?"

May 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has turned its investigative eye toward the mutual fund sales practices at Wachovia Corp.

May 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More companies now rely on alliances with corporate partners to meet their strategic business goals - sometimes instead of opting for higher risk...

May 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Successful corporate restructuring and attainment of financial goals in the early 1990's led to greater total returns to shareholders (TRS) over the trailing...

May 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The long-ailing US steel industry has claimed yet another victim as Weirton Steel Corp. filed for federal bankruptcy protection.

May 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Efforts by state pension funds and other dissident shareholders to dislodge Safeway chairman Steve Burd from the supermarket company's board have gotten a...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with a $1.4-bilion deficit in their pension fund, supervisors in San Diego County approved a proposed $400 million bond issue to cover...