Administration

However, Wilshire Consulting attributes much of the improvement in funded status for the trailing 12 months to state employer contributions.

Seventy percent think their approach will help employees retire at their targeted retirement age, compared to only 43% of plan sponsors without this specific plan design.

While asset returns gave defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors a funded status bump in June, lower interest rates led to an overall decline for the second quarter of...

Research reports find a large proportion of employees don’t understand their retirement benefits—with some not even realizing they are participating—and better communication is needed to help participants take...

It’s important for plan sponsors to stay vigilant and be sure they are holding providers accountable.

Attendees of the 2019 PLANSPONSOR National Conference heard suggestions for the composition of retirement plan committees, what should be discussed in meetings and what fiduciary training is needed.

Defined benefit (DB) plans lost their 2019 funded status gains in May, and some firms say hedging liabilities would have helped.

Speakers on a panel at the 2019 PLANSPONSOR National Conference offered new ideas for reducing leakage from defined contribution (DC) retirement plans.

Plan sponsors are meeting participants ‘where they are’ to promote financial wellness.

A self-professed “ERISA nerd” looks beyond the rules and regulations to ask what plan sponsors can do to promote genuine engagement in the participant population.

Experts lay out what retirement plan sponsors should ask to find the adviser best suited to their plan.

Plan sponsors from across the U.S. shared their biggest challenges and successes during the opening session of the 2019 PLANSPONSOR National Conference in Washington, D.C.

Fidelity’s head of workplace investing expects the recordkeeping business will grow ever more competitive over time, leading to additional consolidation and, he says, more unified services for plan...

The law changed the rules for 401(k) loans and hardship withdrawals, making it easier to draw money directly as a hardship without first getting involved in the loan...

The Society of Actuaries (SOA) proposed mortality tables include mortality data from both single-employer and multiemployer defined benefit (DB) plans.

A study shows Americans at least 45 years old who have not yet retired are struggling financially and falling behind in retirement savings, but defined contribution (DC) plan...

Data from LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute shows a 240% increase in pension risk transfer activity in the first quarter of 2019 relative to the same period in 2018.

A pension risk transfer (PRT) to terminate a defined benefit (DB) plan reflects heavily on a plan sponsor’s balance sheet, which may stop in its tracks a decision...

A new research report and Catherine Collinson, with Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, lay out steps all three can take to improve retirement confidence and readiness in America.