Tag: Defined benefit

Frozen pension plans are substantially different from open plans and need to be managed accordingly to prevent litigation and ensure positive outcomes for plan participants.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) asked the U.S. Treasury and Department of Labor (DOL) to revise electronic disclosure rules governing employee-sponsored retirement plans to improve clarity and protect...

Since its introduction nearly 30 years ago, the 401(k) has evolved from a perk for high-paid executives to an essential benefit to finance the retirement of the middle...

While attendees of a U.S. House subcommittee hearing agreed that the U.S. multiemployer pension system needs to be improved, they had differing opinions on how to achieve this.

BNP Paribas Investment Partners Trust Company added a share class to offer employer-sponsored retirement plans access to its U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) comingled investment fund.

The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) Index increased during September, growing from 94.77 to settle at 96.19 as of October 1, 2013.

Transamerica Retirement Solutions announced the expansion of its pension sales and distribution team with the hiring of Ty Minnich and Cathy Berg.

A best-practice defined contribution (DC) plan can provide secure retirement income at equivalent cost to a defined benefit (DB) plan, according to a new research paper from the...

A new retirement readiness survey found an increasing number of plan sponsors point to participant outcomes, not gross participation rates, as the best measure of success for an...

Several factors have created a retirement funding gap that is estimated to be as high as $6 trillion, said panelists in a discussion at BlackRock.

Morningstar's municipal credit analysts found that based on two key funding metrics, the state of Wisconsin has the strongest-funded state pension plan system while Illinois has the weakest...

Never has the industry seen such potential for change, Marcia Wagner, president of The Wagner Law Group, told attendees at the PLANADVISER National Conference in Orlando, Florida.

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) has released Form 5500 data from 2011.

USEC Inc. has frozen its defined benefit pension plan covering nonunion employees.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced that it will be paying retirement benefits for a vehicle transportation business based in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index, which tracks the relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities, slipped to 92.66 as of August 1.

Pension plans in the U.S. continue to lower assumptions, according to an analysis from PwC.

Institutional investors posted mixed returns in Q213, according to the Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service (Wilshire TUCS).