UK Pensions Equity Following Over?
November 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Greenwich Associates study found that UK pension funds gave up their dedication to...
Tag: Defined Benefit (DB)
Media Companies' 2009 Pension Liability 'Modest' Relative to Cash Flow
November 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Fitch Ratings report asserts that most pension liabilities at U.S. media and entertainment...
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Groups Urge DB Legislation to Help with Current Economy
October 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Industry and retirement groups in a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the...
Judge Orders Assets in Argentine Pension Funds Frozen
October 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. judge has ordered the freezing of more than $553 million in U.S. investments...
9th Circuit Allows Offset of Pension Benefit by Loan Amount
October 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has shot down a highly-compensated former employee's attempt...
Millard Responds to Committee Questions
October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In prepared testimony and a series of questions following, the executive director of the nation's...
ICI: You Can Count on the Private Retirement System
October 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a statement presented in response to a recent Congressional Committee, the Investment Company Institute...
Plan Sponsors Experience Significant Losses in Third Quarter
October 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most U.S. institutional investment plan sponsors reported a fourth consecutive quarter of negative results for...
Canadian Plans Surviving but Sponsors Fretting
October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New research from Pyramis Global Advisors, Fidelity Investments' institutional asset manager, reflects that while Canadian...
S&P Warns of Severe Pension Shortfalls
October 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Company pensions that went into 2008 in good shape may go into 2009 with what...
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Survey Indicates DB Freeze Wave is Over
October 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey of large corporate and public defined benefit (DB) plans found that plan...
Prosecutors Tack on New Fraud Charges in SD Pension Case
October 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal prosecutors have added new wire fraud and conspiracy charges to the long-running prosecution of...
Market Crash Drives up U.K. Pension Shortfalls
October 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New Deloitte data shows the worldwide market turmoil has driven FTSE 100 pension deficits to...
Many Sponsors Still Shy about Using Derivatives
October 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A quarter of plan sponsors who don't use derivatives as a risk-management tool show a...
Interest Rate Rise Helps Offset Pension Investment Setbacks
October 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the assets of the Milliman 100 pension plans suffered major investment losses (more than...
Local Government Pensions in Good Shape
October 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new study of local government pension funding has found that the local plans are,...
Bond Yields Help Q308 Pension Funding Picture
October 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The global equity markets may have spent much of the third quarter heading south, but...
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New Actuarial Firm Serves DB, Cash Balance, and Hybrid Plans
October 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lockstone Advisors, LLC is new actuarial firm dedicated to small and mid-size public and private...
YTD Pension Funding Ratios Down 4.3% in 2008
October 7, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Funding ratios at the typical U.S. pension plan dipped 0.3 percentage points in September, according...
UBS Finds Pension Funding Ratios Take a Dive
October 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UBS Global Asset Management announced that its US Pension Fund Fitness Tracker, a quarterly estimate...