Tag: Defined Benefit (DB)

Guidelines published by Transamerica highlight the importance of clean data and careful planning when it comes to minimizing defined benefit...

Analyses by Mercer, Wilshire and LGIMA varied on whether DB funded status increased, decreased or remained the same in August.

Many defined benefit plan sponsors are seeking the support of an outsourced chief investment officer to help with time-sensitive asset-allocation...

The notice also includes a modified unisex version of the mortality tables for use in determining minimum present value for...

However, still more not-for-profit employees have access to DB plans than do for-profit company employees.

The majority of participants are confident their savings via DC plans will be sufficient to last throughout retirement, a LIMRA...

The health system will pay millions to its plans and former participants and agreed to keep the plan sufficiently funded.

The Board identifies pensions and other post-retirement benefits as an area of financial reporting in need of improvement.

“One of the steps to take before terminating your retirement plan is to make sure your plan document includes all law changes...

The appellate court agreed with a lower court that the health provider’s pension plan did not fit the definition of...

Pension plans need to adopt “spread acquisition strategies," according to a speaker for a webinar hosted by BlackRock.

Gary Findlay, former Executive Director of the Missouri State Employees Retirement System (MOSERS), discusses fearmongering regarding public pension plans.

Appellate courts have ruled that the pension plans of Advocate Health Care and St. Peter's Healthcare System are not “church...

The white paper explains why a review of insurers’ administrative capabilities and practices is such a crucial part of fiduciaries’...

Regulations allowing public DBs to base their liability discount rates on the assumed expected rate of return on their assets...

DB plan sponsors requesting a determination letter should identify whether the plan has risk transfer language.

By comparison, only one quarter of retirees in all age and income groups have debt.

Real estate managers continue to have the largest share of pension fund assets, a survey finds.

Mercer finds a 3% decline for S&P 1500 companies and Wilshire finds a 1.8% decline for S&P 500 companies for...

The study, sponsored by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, found REITs outperformed other asset classes.