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April 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Market conditions like those seen in 2013 benefited those plan sponsors that had not yet moved to de-risk their defined benefit (DB) plans.

April 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The estimated cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, of a U.S. retiree annuity purchase decreased during February from 108.5% to 108.4%, according...

April 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New bankruptcy paperwork filed by city of Detroit includes benefits reductions for the city’s two public pension funds.

April 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The estimated funding levels of defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies decreased 2% in March to 85%, according to...

April 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The average funding ratios of U.S. pension plans saw a decrease during the first quarter of 2014, says a recent analysis.

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Nearly half of defined benefit plan respondents (47%) to a recent survey for Prudential indicate they utilize a liability driven investing (LDI) strategy.

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than $30 billion in economic activity was generated by retirement benefits paid to California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) members.

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan declined 0.5 percentage points in March to 92.1%, according to the BNY Mellon...

April 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) pension fund claims New York investment manager Alphonse Fletcher Jr. defrauded investors of...

March 31, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – For February, the average cost of purchasing annuities from an insurer decreased slightly from 108.5% to 108.4% of the accounting liability, according to...

April 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Liability-driven investing (LDI) can be a great choice for defined benefit plans, but the strategy has its downsides, says Bob Schmidt of the...

March 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently made analyses related to money market fund reform available to the public.

March 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Setting specific funded status goals for defined benefit (DB) plans can help sponsors and investment committees improve performance, says a new research paper...

March 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In prior decades, international and emerging market stocks were good investments to get diversification for a retirement plan portfolio, but things have changed.

March 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The ongoing recovery of the U.S. economy may be strengthened by six particular profit themes, says a new analysis.

March 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The first quarter of 2014 saw very light pension rebalancing flows, but liability-driven investing (LDI) and de-risking strategies continue to pick up steam.

March 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – While retirement plan sponsors will find the market for getting into stable value funds has improved, the threat of rising interest rates poses...

March 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In 2013, a solid majority of multiemployer pension plans (59%) were in the green zone as defined by the Pension Protection Act of...

March 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Over the last year, the funded status of Detroit’s two pension plans has decreased.

March 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index, which tracks the relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities, remained basically unchanged through February and into March.