Administration

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's accounting rulemakers may have reached closure on the subject, but controversy regarding the impact of expensing stock options continues unabated.

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent report on the state of many of the nation's public pension funds seems likely to "misinform and confuse, rather than enlighten,"...

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees of the scandal-plagued Putnam Investments violated the firm's policies through "the payment of Putnam corporate expenses" involving Putnam-administered retirement plans, several Putnam...

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Janus Capital Group's Executive Vice President, Institutional Services has agreed to take a leave of absence.

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Robust stock market gains in 2003 have helped 18 companies in the S&P 500 move their defined benefit plans from underfunded to overfunded.

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An ex-Bank of America broker who was the first to be arrested in the ongoing state of New York mutual fund trading probe...

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) has reached a settlement with a former Salomon Smith Barney analyst who maintained abnormally high price...

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Colorado Governor Bill Owens is poised to ink a bill that would protect portfolio company valuations from disclosure.

April 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Days after the merger of FleetBoston Financial and Bank of America, the senior management team at Progress Investment Management Company worked out a...

March 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Walter Hewlett, a vocal leader in opposing Hewlett-Packard's controversial acquisition of Compaq Computer, took his battle to court with a legal challenge to...

March 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prudential Financial Inc's acquisition of the retirement arm of CIGNA Corporation will mean the elimination of 25% of the Hartford jobs for the...

March 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bank of America is reportedly close to reaching a settlement with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office over the institution's alleged role...

March 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission is creating an office of global security risk to look for corporate investments in countries purported to...

March 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Airways Group Inc has submitted to the bankruptcy judge a new 15-member board as the company prepares to emerge from Chapter 11.

March 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First American Funds has announced the merger of seven First American Funds has been finalized.

March 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants in workplace retirement plans trust their employers to provide them with a variety of investment education and advice tools to have a...

March 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BNY Brokerage Inc. has agreed to buy Capital Resource Financial Services (CRFS), a Chicago-based transition management and commission recapture firm.

February 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Swiss bank UBS AG is creating a new division, Alternative Investment Solutions, which will merge the fund-of-funds business of the Stamford-based O'Connor division with AIS,...

February 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Morningstar Inc. removed its "consider selling" recommendation on AllianceBernstein mutual funds Thursday, noting changes the company has made in an effort to improve operations.

February 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The long-rumored $225 million settlement between Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS) and state and federal regulators over improper trading in shares of MFS mutual...