Administration

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a decision that puts Hewlett Packard's merger with Compaq Computer Corp in jeopardy, a Delaware court has ruled in favor of Walter...

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.

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An average of 61% of the total shares of most large, multinationals are owned by institutional investors, a PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Barometer finds.

April 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Italy's biggest insurer Generali plans to create a Europe-based asset management company focusing on life pension funds.

April 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Reacting to the defection of key staffers after its purchase of BARRA RogersCasey (BRC), Capital Resource Advisors (CRA) points out that most of...

March 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over 3/4 of employees have access to financial planning services in their workplace - and more than 70% of the remaining 24% would...

March 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Women executives may often earn more than their spouse and invest an average $300,000 annually - but that doesn't mean they like doing...

March 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US hedge-fund managers, wrestling with the issue of how much portfolio information they should be required to disclose, are going overseas for input.

March 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Median returns for mid-size defined benefit pension funds in the Independent Consultants Cooperative (ICC) Universe last year were lower than in 2000, according...

March 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A long-running sex-discrimination battle with the nation's largest rent-to-own company has ended with an agreement by Rent-A-Center to pay more than 5,000 women...

March 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New UK legislation regulating how companies liquidate their pension funds, which takes effect in April, is expected to speed up payments to plan...

March 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of corporate bankruptcies is slowly edging down, but is still stubbornly clinging to levels high above the historical averages, according to...

February 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Union Bank of Switzerland is finalizing its consolidation plans by combining Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management Inc. with the bank's existing asset management business.

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of current and former employees of Providian Financial Corp. have filed an ERISA fraud lawsuit against the credit card issuer, charging...

February 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York pension fund consultant has admitted guilt in a federal charge of paying kickbacks to a Teamsters pension fund trustee, according...

February 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the nation's largest pension fund with over $165 billion in assets, has completed its international manager...

February 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds gained $2.7 billion during the fourth quarter of 2000 to bring the total in all hedge funds to about $8 billion,...

January 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - GoldK, a retirement plan provider, acquired Retirement Horizons Inc. (RHI), a benefits consultant specializing in retirement plan solutions - extending GoldK's reach in...

January 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National health spending increased to 6.9% in 200 from 5.7% in 1999, the greatest surge in spending seen since 1988 according to the...

January 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In its first expansion outside the US, CitiStreet plans to offer full services for retirement funds and their participants in Australia.