Administration

September 26, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Old Mutual Plc has closed its tender offer for Boston-based United Asset Management (UAM), having accepted some 93% of shares outstanding at $25...

September 14, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under a new rule, the Internal Revenue Service now allows 529 plan participants to change investments in their accounts annually and when a change...

August 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dying doesn't appear to be enough to stop the City of Philadelphia from continuing to send big benefit checks to its former beneficiaries.

August 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An errant email from HR sent Polaroid workers scrambling to pull their retirement benefits out of the firm's underfunded pension plan.

August 14, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Results of a recent survey show small business owners reporting much lower levels of knowledge about 401(k) plans than larger firms.

August 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - German state-owned Landesbank Hessen-Thueringen (Helaba) and Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI) will team up to offer institutional investment management services to the German...

August 14, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension fund manager charged with defrauding clients was released from prison under a deal barring him from working as an investment adviser and...

August 14, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Results of a recent survey show small business owners reporting much lower levels of knowledge about 401(k) plans than larger firms.

August 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some Lucent Technologies employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against their employer for continuing to offer Lucent stock as a 401(k) plan investment...

August 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stanley Works has decided not to reincorporate in Bermuda - a (non) move that could signal a new wrinkle for employers considering a...

August 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Efforts by officials at US securities markets to police their own house moved forward with approval of strict governance standards by the New...

July 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two large pension funds have put their investment management firms on notice that they are expecting greater scrutiny of the auditing and corporate...

July 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a reprieve from what many pension officials felt was a draconian accounting rule, the UK Accounting Standards Board (ASB) is expected to...

July 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Another troubled employer is drawing fire from its 401(k) participants for its actions regarding company stock.

June 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hewitt Associates and Bacon & Woodrow have announced a new partnership.

June 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Goldman Sachs may change the structure of the fees it charges institutional clients, such as pension fund managers, who trade in Nasdaq stocks.

June 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House of Representatives voted 404-22, to reduce fees charged for stock transactions, a measure that would save investors about $14 billion over...

June 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Only 1% of retirement savers got full marks in an annual quiz on 401(k) plans, which comprised questions ranging from benefits of 401(k)...

May 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) has called on Congress to extend the moratorium on new Internet sales taxes until 2005, arguing that...

May 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In its latest efficiency move, Dutch financial services group ING is merging aspects of its US asset management business into a new unit.