Administration

There is always a strong push and pull moving the industry in one direction or another, observes Josh Cohen, a 20-plus year industry veteran currently running DC business...

What is driving DB plan sponsors to freeze their plans or change accounting methods, and is there anything that can be done about ballooning costs for these plans?

When funds charge revenue-sharing fees, the playing field becomes lopsided.

The aggregate funded ratio decreased from 81.3% to 80.0% for the year.

More than half of dioceses plan to freeze or terminate their pension plans, a survey found last year.

Pension funding ratios for the typical U.S. corporate defined benefit pension plan rose over the fourth quarter of 2015.

Despite volatile equity markets, interest rate rises helped fuel a 3% increase in the pension funded status of Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 1500 companies, according to data from...

The aggregate funded ratio for U.S. corporate pension plans rose slightly in 2015, according to year-end data from Wilshire Consulting, following a dip of close to 1% in...

Towers Watson estimates the aggregate pension funded status of 413 Fortune 1000 companies reached 82% at the end of 2015—the same as it was at the end of...

Coffman Engineers felt limited by searching for advisers in its local area.

Movement towards transferring DB sponsors’ pension obligations continued in 2015 despite concerns voiced by participants, lawmakers and regulators.

Each year PLANSPONSOR provides all the information plan sponsors need and want to know during its annual conference.

Nearly all plan sponsors—99%—decreased their discount rates last year, to a level that is unlikely to be reversed in 2015, because of the small change in yield curves...

Mercer has outlined key investment issues it says DB plan sponsors should focus on in the new year.

Over one-third of companies have increased outsourcing of benefits functions in the past two years.

Leading-edge employers already know “retirement plans are not enough” when it comes to improving employees’ long-term financial outlook, according to a new Mercer study. 

Discussing the governor’s pension reform initiatives, the treasurer said there is no investment strategy that will solve the problem; the state must pay off unfunded liabilities.

While only one-quarter of plans are in the red zone, those plans account for half of participants.

Plan sponsors want more than a payout annuity provider when they go looking for an insurer. 

The growing movement leads to better returns and outcomes, experts say.