Administration

November 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Financial Accounting Standards Board indicated it would add disclosure requirements to its pending set of rules on consolidations of special-purpose entities (SPE).

November 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pre-retirees may have neglected future concerns and are not doing enough now to prepare for retirement, according to Ernst & Young LLP Actuarial...

November 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The risk levels of the £1 billion Unilever portfolio weren't monitored on a regular basis by the head of the equities team at...

November 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Frost Bank has established Frost Securities Lending, a new division that facilitates transactions for institutional investors and plan sponsors, providing an opportunity to...

November 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mellon HR Solutions has acquired the training process outsourcing (TPO) business of Franklin Covey, a Utah-based training and consulting services organization.

November 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Blaming rising health care costs and corporate officials more focused on a traditional benefits package, Prudential Financial is shutting down its WorkingSolutions voluntary...

November 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Xerox Corp.'s predicts its 2003 pension expense will jump by $150 million over 2002 and its cash funding requirements to jump by $50...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Five of this year's top performing mutual funds are profiting from short selling strategies because of the still struggling markets, Standard & Poor's...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Individual investors may be fleeing equities for the safe harbor offered by bonds and cash, but many pension funds are headed in the...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the latest of a string of black marks against a troubled Pittsburgh investment manager, the Retirement Board of Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) is...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett thinks corporate managements got swept up in the exuberant late 1990s bull market, leading them to forecast gains on...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With increasing numbers of companies announcing they would now voluntarily expense employee stock options, the nation's accounting standards board has agreed to help...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There are ominous indications in Sacramento at the nation's largest pension fund, the $150 billion California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS).

July 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - a North Carolina Business Court judge has upheld First Union's merger agreement with Wachovia, but there was good news for rival suitor SunTrust...

July 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com- While expanded pension and savings opportunities abound in the new tax bill, more than a third (35%) of employer-sponsored retirement plan participants remain uncertain...

June 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS Asset Management (UBS-AM) will acquire RT Capital Management, Royal Bank of Canada's (RBC) asset management business, in a $230 million deal.

June 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research indicates that stock options, once only popular in the US, UK and Canada, are catching on in other countries, offering employers...

May 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Newton Investment Management, Mellon Financial Corporation's UK private client asset management subsidiary, is buying Henderson Private Asset Management (HPAM).

May 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pioneer Global Asset Management S.p.A., has acquired UK-based Momentum Group, a fund of hedge funds manager, for $110 million. The acquisition is subject...

April 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Proxy research and advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), has switched sides in the dispute over IBM's new cash-based retirement plan.