Administration

October 19, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In the wake of moves by several large companies to de-risk their defined benefit (DB) plans, the Pension Rights Center (PRC) is...

October 18, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An audit report claims the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is overpaying into the Federal Employee Retirement System (FERS) because its employees’ circumstances differ...

October 18, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – During the past year, the 100 largest U.S. public pension plans reported an aggregate underfunding of $0.895 trillion and funded ratio of 75.1%.

October 18, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Prudential Insurance Company of America has signed an agreement with Verizon Communications Inc. to transfer approximately $7.5 billion of the Verizon...

October 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Amid market volatility, the changing role of defined contribution (DC) retirement plans, a shrinking work force and longer life expectancy, plan sponsors must...

October 15, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) companies saw an economic upturn in 2011, with continued increased share value, support among company leaders and better...

October 12, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Alternatives are increasingly being used across defined contribution (DC) plans as a risk-management strategy.

October 11, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Friends Fiduciary Corporation (FFC), which manages assets for U.S. Quakers, has divested from three companies due to concerns about ties with the Israeli...

October 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Art Institute of Chicago is selling about $100 million of taxable and tax-exempt bonds partly to shore up unfunded pension obligations.

October 9, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A white paper from Rocaton Investment Advisors suggests market conditions combined with recently passed pension funding relief justifies a new look at liability-driven...

October 8, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index, which tracks the relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities, increased for the second month.

October 8, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – More than half (52%) of institutional investors, globally, are rethinking traditional approaches to asset allocation over the next decade, according to a Pyramis...

October 4, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In September, pensions experienced a $45 billion increase in funded status, according to the Milliman Pension Funding Index.

October 4, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – According to BNY Mellon, the funded status of U.S. corporate pensions increased for the second straight month to 75%, the first two-month winning...

October 3, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The list of companies offering lump sum payments to help manage pension plan liability continues to grow, with Equifax as the latest addition.

October 2, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Public pension plans are more than twice as likely to implement socially responsible investing (SRI) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies than...

October 2, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The aggregate deficit in pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies decreased $38 billion during September, to $593 billion, according to figures...

October 2, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Vanguard announced new benchmark indices for 22 of its index funds.

October 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Retirement security remains a major concern for a large percentage of Americans, particularly in terms of being...

October 1, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A report claims target-date funds used by the New York City Deferred Compensation Plan (NYC DCP) have too much exposure to equity after...