Tag: Defined Benefit (DB)

April 22, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – White Oak Advisors has named Rick Bindler as practice leader and lead consultant for its...

April 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of corporate defined benefit (DB) pension plans has been experiencing unprecedented volatility...

April 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration today approved new contribution rates...

April 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) — The aggregate funded status of the 100 largest U.S. corporate defined benefit (DB) pension plans fell...

April 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Under a settlement with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc. has made...

April 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Sponsors of both defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) retirement plans will need to...

April 15, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Strong global equity market performance and higher liability discount rates worked wonders on the funded...

April 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) recently proposed rules about the treatment of rollovers from...

April 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ongoing market turbulence and lingering low interest rates have created formidable challenges for pension plan...

April 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Market conditions like those seen in 2013 benefited those plan sponsors that had not yet...

April 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new analysis from the LIMRA Secure Retirement Institute suggests more than four in 10...

April 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The estimated cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, of a U.S. retiree annuity purchase...

April 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Investment management firm Vanguard announced it will cease offering administration services for defined benefit (DB)...

April 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will hold a phone forum about retirement plan terminations.

April 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The estimated funding levels of defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies...

April 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The average funding ratios of U.S. pension plans saw a decrease during the first quarter...

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Nearly half of defined benefit plan respondents (47%) to a recent survey for Prudential indicate...

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stephen Birmingham joined Taylor Investment Counselors as executive vice president, director of business development.

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan declined 0.5 percentage points in...

April 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors and retirement committees have been examining their pension plans with the objective of...