Administration

March 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Incited by a raft of accounting debacles in the past year, retail investors are now leading the charge to require companies to treat...

February 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Few things have the potential to be as disruptive to a plan sponsor as a shift in management at a carefully selected investment...

February 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill pending in Congress could change the face of offshore income deferral and escalate hedge fund taxes by $5 billion over the...

February 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer's German Human Resource Consulting arm has entered into an agreement with KPMG to acquire its German Actuarial Services division.

February 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has overhauled its emerging market policy by barring stock investment in Malaysia, Thailand, India, Russia, and...

February 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS Global Asset Management has overhauled its hedge fund and real estate investment business operations.

February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal probe of improper market-timing at Franklin Resources has found that the company's alleged misdeeds were more widespread than the arrangement with...

February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) has had no statistically significant impact on shareholder class-action lawsuit filings, average or median settlement values, or investor recovery...

February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—A federal bankruptcy judge Thursday approved Enron Corp's sale of Portland General Electric (PGE) to an investment group headed by a former Oregon governor Neil...

February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The mutual fund industry's primary trade group has asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to consider requiring financial intermediaries to receive...

February 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—California Public Employees Retirement System's (CalPERS) board has the authority, because of state law that went into effect January 1, to decide salaries for 28...

January 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Money managers using the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) will soon have to disclose their fees to clients and prospects using a standardized...

January 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the exception of small-cap mutual funds, the size of the investment portfolio has little, if any affect, on the performance of the...

January 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northrop Grumman Corp's 9% loss for the fourth quarter is yet another example of how a retirement plan can significantly drag down -...

January 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A growing number of legislative officials are pressing for a heightened pursuit of funds lost by state pension funds in the wake of...

January 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Larger plans are more likely to have company stock, more participant investment in company stock - and more limits on that investment, according...

January 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC (PIMCO) has revealed California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is investigating the firm for possibly defrauding investors by not...

January 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Corporate directors labored longer and harder during 2003, but that didn't necessarily translate into higher compensation packages, according to a new study.

December 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - E-mails obtained by the Wall Street Journal suggest some heavy hitters at Alliance Capital Management Holding LP were not only aware, but authorized,...

December 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Predictions for strong growth in employment in 2004 have helped spur Chief Financial Officer (CFO) economic optimism for the new year.