Administration

The Board said it based its decision on an analysis by its actuary.

Elliot Health System made the statement that “financial challenges in health care have led the vast majority of health care employers to make this decision years before we...

Announcements by the company provide an example of common steps and the timeline for a pension risk transfer.

Mark Unhoch, with October Three, explains why annuity costs for pension risk transfers (PRTs) are greater when interest rates are lower.

Some legislative proposals, such as the SECURE Act, may address challenges to retirement income adequacy women face, but there are also things retirement plan sponsors can do.

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.