Administration

January 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO (AFSCME) Employees Pension Plan has filed 21 shareholder proposals.

January 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Taxpayers in 10 Massachusetts cities may be on the hook for a combined $4.5 billion in unfunded healthcare benefits for public retirees.

January 12, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Institutional investors that participated in a survey by Mercer addressed climate change risk via asset allocation and other initiatives.

January 11, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The John Hancock Investor Sentiment Index score improved in the fourth quarter of 2011 from the annual low measured in the year's third...

January 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Mercer released what its team believes to be the five most important pension risk...

January 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Plan sponsors are not fully knowledgeable of their plan administrative fees.

January 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional investment managers are gaining confidence in the U.S. economy, according to a quarterly survey conducted by Northern Trust.

January 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Educating employees was chief among plan sponsors’ concerns in 2011, according to Kevin Crain, head of institutional retirement and benefit services for Bank...

January 6, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Milliman, Inc’s latest Pension Funding Index shows in December, pensions experienced a $59.7 billion decrease in pension funded status.

January 6, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many Canadian employers that provide a defined benefit (DB) pension plan for their employees may find themselves having to double their contributions or...

January 4, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The aggregate deficit in pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies reached $484 billion at December 31, 2011, an increase of $169 billion...

January 4, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined effects of poor investment returns and decreasing interest rates during 2011 caused the Towers Watson DB Pension Index to fall 16.2%.

January 4, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan fell 2.7 percentage points...

January 3, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Credit Suisse Group AG is being sued in New York state court by Dutch pension fund Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP over losses on investments...

January 3, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York City’s largest pension will not be lead plaintiff in a lawsuit to recover millions of dollars from bankrupt MF Global.

December 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Census Bureau has released the finances of selected state and local government employee retirement systems for 3Q2011. 

December 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Receivables Exchange, an online marketplace for working capital financing, has partnered with Insperity.

December 21, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois House Republican Leader Tom Cross called for a meeting of the House Personnel and Pensions Committee in the next month to examine...

December 20, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research shows that economic recovery is being impeded by market-based retirement plans, such as 401(k)s.

December 20, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – After peaking in 2009, share utilization rates have returned to steadier levels in 2010 as economic conditions have improved.