Administration

March 8, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest S&P Target Date Scorecard indicates that further-dated target-date funds are continuing to generally have lower cross-sectional ranges of equity exposure than...

March 7, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An increasing number of corporate directors and officers are showing more interest in the insurance programs their companies use to protect them against...

March 7, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An increasing number of corporate directors and officers are showing more interest in the insurance programs their companies use to protect them against...

March 6, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – At the recommendation of its actuarial consultant, the board of the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) of Ohio approved changes to actuarial assumptions...

March 6, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In February, corporate pension plans experienced a $20 billion improvement in funding, according to Milliman's Pension Funding Index. 
 

March 6, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new economic impact study finds that pension benefit expenditures provide an economic stimulus to the economy, including more than $1 trillion in...

March 6, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average funded status of Fortune 1000 pension plans were reduced by four percentage points during 2011. 

March 5, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wilshire’s 2012 Report on Funding of State Retirement Systems shows an increase in the...

March 2, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Since 2008, the combination of fiscal pressures and increasing contribution requirements has spurred many states and localities to take action to strengthen the...

March 2, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The aggregate deficit in pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies was $410 billion on February 29, 2012.

March 2, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The typical U.S. corporate pension plan’s funded status rose 2.1% in February.  

February 29, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Liabilities still outpaced the growth in assets for the 16 publicly listed U.S. corporations with pension liabilities over $20 billion, according to an...

February 29, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors of the largest U.S. defined benefit (DB) pension plans are deepening their risk management focus on plan liabilities.  

February 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Corp. said on Monday the U.S. attorney in Manhattan and the New York attorney general are investigating its foreign exchange trades.

February 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Total 529 college savings plan assets were an estimated $144.4 billion in Q4 2011, according to data from Financial Research Corporation (FRC), a...

February 24, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – California State Controller John Chiang released an actuarial report showing the 30-year cost of providing health and dental benefits for state retirees is...

February 24, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Japan's financial regulator halted operations of a Tokyo money-management company after finding it allegedly lost billions of dollars in client money.

February 22, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Ford Motor Co. announced a long-term strategy to reduce the risk of its funded defined benefit (DB) plans.  

February 21, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A report found California’s local independent pension systems are more in debt than other state systems.

February 21, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio (STRS Ohio) Board selected a new asset mix for its portfolio at the February board meeting.