Administration

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Continuing the growing trend of corporate governance activism by institutional investors including pension funds, one retirement plan on Tuesday urged MBNA Corp. to...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) is forcing asset managers to rethink how they pay their employees with its recent requirement that...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating trades made at a Baltimore office of Morgan Stanley that recently fired two employees in relation to...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Last year was good to the asset levels at defined benefit pension plans of the largest U.S. companies, but even with large gains,...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) proposal requiring all companies to list stock options as an expense in the income statement has broad...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Given market volatility of the last several years, it should not come as a surprise that many investors have become less of a...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - OppenheimerFunds, Inc. (OFI) has launched a new asset allocation tool.

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...

April 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Oregon pension officials are mad as heck about goings on at supermarket chain Safeway Inc., and - like many of their state pension...

March 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Inc's Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel have opted out of 750,000 stock options for higher cash compensation.

March 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Emerging from a firestorm of lawsuits after its failed merger with WorldCom Inc, Sprint Corp. has agreed to reinforce its corporate governance practices.

March 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite knowing about the potential financial consequences, nearly four in 10 respondents to a new survey say they would consider prematurely raiding their...

February 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in the now defunct United Companies Financial Corp's employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) have reached a $10 million settlement with the company's...

February 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ending months of speculation, Wachovia Corporation announced that it has agreed to merge its brokerage operations with those of Prudential Financial Inc. to...

February 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The financial markets might find it tough going to reopen after a major disaster without regulatory guidelines about how trading firms should prepare...

February 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - INVESCO announced that it will be offering asset management services in China as part of a joint venture deal.

February 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's has released the methodology and constituents of the new Standard & Poor's (S&P) /Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Large Cap...

February 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A comparison of six methods for employee stock option valuation reveals the Black-Scholes method systematically overvalues employee stock options.

January 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AdminSource Inc., a subsidiary of AGF Management Limited, acquired the third-party fund valuation and recordkeeping business of TD Bank Financial Group.

January 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Treasurers, take note. There may be some good domestic economic news these days, but it's not from the credit world where bond defaults...