Funded Status of Corporate Pensions Improves
July 11, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The funded status of corporate pensions improved in June by $47 billion.
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Pension Annuitization Attractiveness on the Rise
July 11, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index, which tracks the relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities,...
Bill Would Overhaul Public Pension System
July 10, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introduced a bill that would overhaul the existing public pension...
BNY Mellon FOREX Suit Dismissed
July 10, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit against former and current officers of BNY Mellon...
Pension Funds Increase Allocations to Alternatives
July 8, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A survey from Towers Watson found allocations to alternative assets by pension funds now account...
Ex-Wife Entitled to Early Retirement Subsidy
July 5, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge ruled that an ex-wife was entitled to a subsidy for early retirement...
Court Finds for Employer in Dispute over Benefit Election
July 3, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found a benefits committee used a reasonable process to...
S&P 1500 Pension Funding Hits a High Point
July 2, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The funding level for S&P 1500 pension plans rose to its highest point since 2011,...
Funded Status of Corporate Pensions Rose in June
July 2, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The funded status of U.S. corporate pensions rose by 3.1 percentage points in June to...
Funded Status of Pensions Improved in Q2
July 1, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The funded status of pension plans improved over the second quarter of 2013, said UBS...
GASB Issues Implementation Guide for Public Pensions
June 28, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has published an Implementation Guide for new financial reporting...
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Is DB or DC Better for Participants?
June 28, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – There are many factors that contribute to how much retirement income a plan will generate,...
Court Dismisses Verizon Pension Buyout Suit
June 25, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against telecommunications firm Verizon Communications Inc., which dealt...
Pension Annuitization Attractiveness Rose in May
June 18, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index increased considerably from May’s value of 85.81 to settle...
Chrysler Freezing Pension Plan
June 14, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Chrysler Group will freeze its pension plan for U.S. salaried workers at the end...
FASB Defers Certain Nonpublic Plan Disclosures
June 13, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) affirmed its proposal to indefinitely defer certain disclosures for...
DOL Sues to Recover Misused Pension Funds
June 11, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has filed lawsuits seeking to restore $4.9 million of...
PBGC to Take Plan of RI Hospital
June 10, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) will take responsibility for the pension plan of Landmark...
Release of Claims Bars Lawsuit for Pension Benefits
June 10, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A pension plan participant who signed a release of claims when he was laid off...
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PSNC 2013: Up at Night
June 7, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Are you afraid of the dark? Plan sponsors have many concerns about their retirement plans...