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In the spirit of a modest proposal.

   Cash balance plan sponsors still looking for clarity

Cost benefit analysis requires a long view.

Pension plans have long helped retirees stave off the financial uncertainties of retirement—but unprecedented levels of market volatility and more stringent and intrusive accounting requirements have made it...

More than the subtleties of the law, the nuances of crafting a cogent legal brief, and the humiliations that often accompany the public exercise of the Socratic method,...

Ours is a business bounded by laws—at least as much as any, if not more than most. If we are largely spared the intrusions of the occasional vagaries...

Time was when a "bundled" solution could not be delivered efficiently or effectively unless all the parts came from the same entity—no more. This bundled concept has, for...

In the aftermath of last year’s financial market meltdown, deferred compensation programs found themselves not only battered by the markets, and squeezed by the challenging economic environment, but...

Emerging markets recover—then pick up steam.

Highlights from the suggestion box.

Most 403(b) sponsors kept match during the downturn.

Bill would require disclosure of expected retirement income.

We all have them: those front-line experiences that are inevitable when one deals with the variety—and sensitivity—of issues associated with human beings and critical life events. Sometimes those...

We often are counseled to keep our résumés “current,” regardless of our ­comfort/security with our current position (after all, you never know when an opportunity may come knocking). ...

Note: Plan-year deadlines assume 12/31 plan-year ends.

As stock prices languish, more employers gear up to do option exchanges.

Iron Workers Local 25 Pension Fund, et al., v. Watson Wyatt and Co., No. 04-cv-40243

Sponsors should start getting ready now for the new  Form 5500.

Underfunded pensions and the issue of executive compensation.

Are you indemnified for a fiduciary breach?