Tag: Defined benefit

Colleges and universities, having fully embraced defined contribution plans, are also seeking out expert advice. 

While pension plans are far more prevalent among non-profits compared with for-profit employers, they’re still only available to a minority of non-profit staff. 

Northern Trust Universe data shows the second quarter of 2016 was the third consecutive quarter of modest positive returns for institutional asset owners, with returns clocking in just...

In addition to cash payments, the settlement agreement also includes agreed upon provisions relating to plan administration.

As long as plan sponsors make (and document) a reasonable effort to locate missing participants and benefices, they can leave alone Lines 4I of the Schedule H and...

The appellate court remanded the case back to a district court for further proceedings.

The investment firm recommends ‘capital efficient hedging instruments.’

Both petitions to the high court question whether ERISA's church plan exemption applies so long as a pension plan is maintained by a qualifying church-affiliated organization, or whether...

Although the consultant is not named as a defendant in the suit, a former pension plan participant argues she was a fiduciary of the plan, rendering the named...

“Other than financial strength, benefits administration service is the most important factor in the fiduciary selection of an annuity provider,” says Steve Keating with Penbridge Advisors.

The bill would move PBGC premiums 'off budget.'

Cerulli’s latest survey of institutional investor priorities and behaviors shows lasting momentum for multi-asset-class solutions, but also some challenges for the market segment. 

The IRS is asking DB plan sponsors to identify whether their plan has lump-sum risk transfer language.

Among middle-income Boomers, that surges to 77%.

Real estate continues to be the top alternatives pick for pension funds.

If the pension plans included in the study, sponsored by NAREIT, had reversed their REIT and hedge fund allocations over the 1998 through 2014 period, at the end...

Retirement plan advisers will need to help DC plan sponsors communicate to participants and help DB plan sponsors review their investment strategies.

Proposed rules in January provided nondiscrimination testing relief.

PBGC is adjusting the way DB plans use interest rate assumptions to value and pay benefits.