Tag: Defined Benefit (DB)

October 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – TriHealth, which operates four hospitals in the Cincinnati area, decided to freeze defined benefit (DB) pension...

October 13, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Another federal appeals court has ruled employers may eliminate retirement plan transfer provisions allowing employees...

October 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Archdiocese of Philadelphia sold three archdiocesan properties, in part to meet pension obligations.

October 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Are defined benefit (DB) plan participants’ benefits more or less secure after the plan sponsor...

October 6, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Data from 2012 Form 5500 filings of retirement plans provides evidence of the increasing coverage...

October 6, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The estimated aggregate funding level of pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies remained at...

October 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The aggregate funded ratio for U.S. corporate defined benefit (DB) pension plans slipped to 85% for...

October 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Falling liabilities were not enough to offset falling asset levels for defined benefit (DB) plans...

October 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced it will settle $1.4 billion in pension obligations through the purchase...

September 29, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is requesting that the Office of Management and Budget...

September 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A recent survey of investment consultants, conducted by Cerulli Associates, shows that they are actively...

September 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total U.S. retirement assets reached $24 trillion as of June 30, up 2.8% from $23.4...

September 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Motorola Solutions, Inc. has reached an agreement with The Prudential Insurance Company of America under...

September 24, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) will pay retirement benefits for nearly 2,000 current and...

September 22, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Making sure valuations are correct, addressing multiemployer plan problems and providing relief for closed plans...

September 22, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New legislation would create a permanent change in the way nondiscrimination regulations apply to certain...

September 12, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released guidance relating to the defined benefit (DB) plan...

September 9, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Financial analytics firm Cerulli Associates finds that nearly four in 10 (37.5%) exchange-traded fund (ETF)...

September 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ownership of retirement accounts fell in 2013, but median and mean values of retirement accounts...

September 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Alaska Electrical Pension Fund has accused 13 banks of manipulating an interest rate benchmark...