Tag: Defined Benefit (DB)

From 1998 to 2015, the percentage of Fortune 500 employers offering a traditional, final salary DB plan to most newly...

Voya will take over benefit payments for retirees of Chemtura Corporation.

Pension funds are “owning” five strategic aspects of management, a survey finds.

After seeing their pension risk transfer lawsuits dismissed in both district and circuit court, tens of thousands of former Verizon...

California teachers do better with a defined benefit plan than a 401(k), research shows. 

Rocaton Investment Advisors and Penbridge Advisors announced a new strategic alliance to provide pension de-risking services to plan sponsors. 

2015 was the first calendar year since 2008 that institutional investors overall had a negative return.

Defined contribution (DC) assets now represent more than 48% of global retirement assets, according to Willis Towers Watson.

ERISA expert discusses the significant implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Montanile v. Board of Trustees, especially as it...

DB plan participants alleged misconduct from 2007 to 2010 that caused the plan to become underfunded and at risk of...

What is driving DB plan sponsors to freeze their plans or change accounting methods, and is there anything that can...

A new guide from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau charts the complex twists and turns involved in a pension buyout—especially...

Mercer outlines the top investment considerations for not-for-profit healthcare organizations for 2016.

Towers Watson estimates the aggregate pension funded status of 413 Fortune 1000 companies reached 82% at the end of 2015—the...

The first of the appellate courts to rule on recent church plan litigation, the 3rd Circuit reiterated that only churches...

A federal judge found the meaning of “church” is not as simple as “a house of worship.”

A downward revision reflects new information used by the Investment Company Institute.

Movement towards transferring DB sponsors’ pension obligations continued in 2015 despite concerns voiced by participants, lawmakers and regulators.

Nearly all plan sponsors—99%—decreased their discount rates last year, to a level that is unlikely to be reversed in 2015,...

Mercer has outlined key investment issues it says DB plan sponsors should focus on in the new year.