Administration

January 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A study found the actuarial obligations of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) should be measured by using an approach that reflects the partially...

January 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – As companies issue their earning statements for 2011, many are reporting a charge due to pension accounting changes.

January 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total asset levels in the U.S. retirement market have grown 9.6% from 2009 to 2010, totaling $15.8 trillion as of end of year...

January 26, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The 12% increase Illinois received in higher education spending this year will be used to reduce...

January 25, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Although legislation was passed last year to shift more pension cost onto state workers in New Jersey, reports show the state is failing...

January 24, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy proposed an increase to the state’s annual payments to the State Employees Retirement System. 

January 20, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index dropped from its prior month’s level of 87.52 and currently sits at 86.65 as of January 1,...

January 20, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Airlines' parent company has made only a small fraction of the roughly $100 million payment it was scheduled to contribute to the...

January 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A paper suggests that lowering deferral limits to 401(k)-type plans wouldn’t make much dent in the U.S. budget deficit, and could result in workers...

January 17, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO (AFSCME) Employees Pension Plan has filed 21 shareholder proposals.

January 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Taxpayers in 10 Massachusetts cities may be on the hook for a combined $4.5 billion in unfunded healthcare benefits for public retirees.

January 12, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Institutional investors that participated in a survey by Mercer addressed climate change risk via asset allocation and other initiatives.

January 11, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The John Hancock Investor Sentiment Index score improved in the fourth quarter of 2011 from the annual low measured in the year's third...

January 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Mercer released what its team believes to be the five most important pension risk...

January 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Plan sponsors are not fully knowledgeable of their plan administrative fees.

January 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Institutional investment managers are gaining confidence in the U.S. economy, according to a quarterly survey conducted by Northern Trust.

January 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Educating employees was chief among plan sponsors’ concerns in 2011, according to Kevin Crain, head of institutional retirement and benefit services for Bank...

January 6, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Milliman, Inc’s latest Pension Funding Index shows in December, pensions experienced a $59.7 billion decrease in pension funded status.

January 6, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many Canadian employers that provide a defined benefit (DB) pension plan for their employees may find themselves having to double their contributions or...

January 4, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The aggregate deficit in pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies reached $484 billion at December 31, 2011, an increase of $169 billion...