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Registering venture capital firms -- along with hedge funds and private equity firms -- with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as President Obama's administration plans to do, would be "very burdensome" for small VC firms, said Michael Stark, co-founder and general partner at Crosslink Capital.

Irish pensions are collapsing. But the government is running away from offering meaningful assistance.

Miriam Siegman, 65, one of Bernard Madoff's many victims, is now reduced to scavenging for food in skips James Bone Many of Bernard Madoff's victims have been forced to sell their homes or cancel retirement plans.

Ponzi-scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison, after appearing in U.S. District Court in New York on Monday.

Pension reform plans 'should have been even more radical' The author of the government blueprint on the future of pensions in Britain has confessed he now wishes he had been more radical in his proposals for pension reform.

The S.C. Retirement System must pay back about $40 million in retirement contributions it improperly took from the paychecks of state employees who participated in a program that lets them continue working after retirement, a state judge ruled this week.

A California financial company on Wednesday agreed to repay $2 million to New York state's giant public pension fund after one of the company's former partners was implicated in paying a kickback to secure investment deals from the fund.

NEW YORK That old saying "cash is king" certainly rings true these days. Investors can't seem to get enough of it, which ultimately could be bad news for the stock market and the economy.

A group of five public pension funds, including state funds in Ohio and Texas, have won the right to lead investor class action lawsuits against Bank of America Corp.

For the investors whose life savings vanished in Bernard Madoff's fraud scheme, a 150-year prison sentence can't bring back what they lost.

Survey: A quarter of women are saving nothing towards their retirement, with a similar proportion not saving for anything at all A quarter of women are saving nothing towards their retirement, with a similar proportion not saving for anything at all, a survey has found.

Older Australians are returning to the workforce and putting off retirement because of big losses in superannuation, which has experienced its worst year on record.

Venture capitalists are inherently an overly optimistic bunch, betting millions of dollars on high-risk business ventures that are always running out of cash.

Wed, Jul 1, 2009 The Pacific Corporate Group, a company that helps big government pension funds decide how to invest their money, has agreed to pay $2 million to extract itself from a corruption investigation in New York.

One day after Wall Street huckster Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison, investigators remain stumped about the whereabouts of the billions of dollars he stole from his victims.

Data collected by the federal government shows that most companies have abandoned the style of pension plan used by Southwestern Vermont Health Care that helped lead to a staggering $22 million dollar projected budget deficit for the health system.

A A A' The Supreme Court will have a new look A A A' and perhaps a new member A A A' but the same right-of-center tilt when the justices return in late summer to deal with unfinished business about money in campaigns.

You know them when you meet them; people who are truly inspiring. I met Grace at what was possibly the worst time in her life.

The Neenah Joint School District faces an unfunded liability of $86.3 million in early retirement benefits for its employees, according to a recent actuarial study.

Everyone knows that clients' top concern is having enough money to last through retirement, but how to do that remains in question.