Market Downturn Highlights Importance of Risk Strategies
August 15, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Current stock market instability and falling bond yields underscore the risk defined benefit pension plan...
Tag: Defined Benefit (DB)
Milliman 100 Sees Largest Funded Status Decline of 2011
August 10, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the 100 largest corporate defined benefit pension plans dropped by $68...
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New Marriage-Breakdown Rules Create Risk for Canadian DB Sponsors
August 5, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ontario has passed long-awaited regulations to the Family Statute Law Amendment Act, 2009 (Bill 133),...
Canada Pension Plan Invests in U.S. Real Estate
August 3, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board said it is investing $284 million in four U.S....
S&P 1500 Firms See Pension Deficit Increase
August 3, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The aggregate deficit in pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies increased by $74 billion...
U.S. Pension Funded Status Falls in July
August 3, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan in July fell 4.9 percentage...
PBGC to Pay Interest on Unreasonably Delayed DB Payments
August 2, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that a 45-day...
HHS Issues Rules on DB Pension Costs for Medicare Wage Index
August 2, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In its newly proposed rules, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that...
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DC Offerings Increasingly Dominate Retirement Plan Landscape
July 29, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A survey from Aon Hewitt finds that defined contribution (DC) plans are now the primary...
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DB Participants Don’t Understand Plans
July 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Fidelity Investments survey of corporate pension plan participants has found a widespread lack of...
Canadian Pensions See Slight Gain in Q2 2011
July 21, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faltering global equity markets largely erased fixed income advances during the June quarter, according to...
Kilberg Joins UBS Growth Investors Team
July 18, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS Global Asset Management has announced that Aaron Kilberg has joined the firm in a...
NIRS Tells HELP Committee Pensions Are Good for the Economy
July 12, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS) executive director Diane Oakley testified before the U.S. Senate...
Nonprofit Healthcare Orgs See Second Year of Double Digit Gains
July 11, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average FY2010 total return on investable assets for nonprofit healthcare organizations participating in the...
Interest Rate Rise Lifts Milliman 100 Pension Funding Status in June
July 8, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the 100 largest corporate defined benefit pension plans...
Pension Plan Funding Ratios Dip in Q2
July 6, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legal & General Investment Management America (LGIMA) announced in its quarterly Pension Fiscal Fitness Monitor...
Philly Orchestra Challenged on Funding Pension
June 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In connection with its April 16 bankruptcy petition, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association has claimed that...
Philly Orchestra Challenged on Funding Pension
June 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In connection with its April 16 bankruptcy petition, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association has claimed that...
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Catholic Diocese Reaches Agreement on Lay Employee Pension
June 28, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – An agreement by the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington (Delaware) to aggressively address deficits in its...
Court Rejects Bank’s Efforts to Lay Blame on Pension Fund
June 24, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – For the second time, Union Bank’s attempt to throw liability for its allegedly imprudent investments...