Tag: Defined Benefit (DB)

A new analysis finds that the change in pension wealth from the shift to mostly DC retirement plans is relatively...

A court found a pension plan’s SPD materially conflicted with the plan document, so a participant who expected to receive...

PBGC anticipates about 94% of plans and sponsors will be exempt from many reporting requirements.

Manulife says the adoption of PFaroe risk analytics will complement its global liability-driven investing offering.

“The decline in asset values that hit typical public defined benefit plans, endowments and foundations was primarily due to poor...

Questions about whether funds can be identified in the participant’s possession and when the statute of limitations started to accrue...

The IRS published temporary regulations and proposed final regulations governing the process of reducing benefit payments by distressed multiemployer retirement...

The Cooperative and Small Employer Charity Pension Flexibility Act specifies funding requirements for certain pensions that were not immediately affected...

For larger firms, an exceptional one-year increase in CEO compensation resulted from revisions to pension calculations.

“Even without jumbo deals, there are just more plan sponsors looking to convert their pensions to group annuities,” says Michael...

The public employee retirement system in California says it has created $26 billion in economic activity within the state’s boarders.

Employees with deferred vested benefits under the firm’s pension plan may elect to receive a lump-sum payment.

An appellate court ruled that the decisions to amend the plan and transfer certain assets to an annuity contract were...

The Principal will assume obligation for pension benefits of certain retirees of the Lincoln Electric Company.

Several well-known music recording companies are named in a lawsuit tied to music streaming revenues and other sources of potential...

Corporate ERISA plans returned -1.6% at the median in the second quarter, according to Northern Trust.

It’s been something of a common monthly performance story for pension plans in recent years, with decreasing rates overpowering increasing...

“The misery of uncertainty is worse than the certainty of misery,” commented one retirement industry expert, on the release of...

Growth without the drawdown risk in a defined benefit plan? Alternatives may be an answer, some experts say.

Movement in the effective interest rate decreased pension plan liabilities sharply during the second quarter of 2015.