Tag: defined benefit plans

The major defined benefit consultancies all reported improved funded status in November, as strong markets offset liabilities.

Jim Robison and Tommy Ford, both members of the Retirement Advisor Council, explain why defined contribution plan advisers should include...

Equities bolstered corporate pension funds for the most part last month, offsetting a decline in discount rates.

Schwab will offer increased services in nonqualified deferred compensation and defined benefit plans, highlighting a push toward large retirement plan...

Retirement plan consulting and actuary head says COVID-19 has muddled mortality outcome tracking, with the industry awaiting delayed IRS mortality...

The company was penalized for violating state law by conducting an unlicensed insurance business.  

Protecting funded status, addressing inflation risk, adding value, and more are among suggestions from consultants and asset managers.

An analysis from October Three also finds certain industries are more drawn to the plan design that is viewed as...

Several factors will likely drive more mid-market and large plan sponsors to initiate pension risk transfer (PRT) transactions, surveys show.

Plan fiduciaries are accused of misleading participants in benefits communications and interfering with benefits by arbitrarily assigning them the status...

Among other things, it explains the manner and timing of making elections under the American Rescus Plan Act (ARPA), as well as the flexibility to redesignate contributions between...

A federal judge has found it plausible that DuPont was misleading, based on benefits notices sent to the former participant.

Both single-employer plans and multiemployer plans will get help with funding.

The bill would also extend funding relief for single-employer defined benefit plans.

The plaintiffs in the case claimed the company implemented a corporate restructuring in a way to avoid pension plan obligations.

New York transit worker pension plans say the firm's mismanagement caused 'astonishing' losses.

The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association National Employee Benefits Committee says if the investment strategy of certain funds had been followed, they wouldn't have lost as much...

Part of the Supreme Court’s reasoning in affirming two lower court rulings in Thole v. U.S. Bank is the fact that the Department of Labor polices pension plan...

Normally the Supreme Court strives to structure its rulings with the narrowest possible scope and implications, but that is not always the case.