U.S. Pension Funds Rethinking Investment Management
October 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senior investment executives of some of the largest pension programs in the U.S. are thinking...
Tag: Defined Benefit (DB)
UK Pension Schemes Improve Despite Market Volatility
October 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK pension scheme funding has bounced back by a huge £19 billion in the past...
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ExpertPlan Announces DB Offering
September 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ExpertPlan, provider of private label recordkeeping solutions for the micro- to small retirement plan market,...
MD Local Governments Fret over Possible Pension Cost Shift
September 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Local Maryland government officials say they will be in a tough spot if Governor Martin...
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Another One Bites the Dust: Xerium to Freeze DB
September 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Xerium Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of products used in the production of paper, is freezing...
NY Unveils Pension System Watchdog
September 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has unveiled a new Retirement Compliance Unit to police...
Public Pension Groups: We're Still OK
September 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - National trade groups representing the nation's largest public pension funds contended that state and local...
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'Green' Politics Could Cause Pension Funds to See Red
September 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report by the National Center for Public Policy Research suggests employee pension funds...
Public Plan Accounting Rules Can Mask Underfunding Woes
September 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Within the next 15 years, state pension plans will be have a two-third probability of...
Legislators Ask for Funding Calculation Relief for Small Pensions
September 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, members of the House Ways and Means...
Delphi Gets Court OK for Pension Freeze
September 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal bankruptcy court judge has approved a plan for Delphi Corp., a bankrupt auto...
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Pension Design Planning Growing in Importance
September 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plan design issues will grow increasingly important in years to come in light of...
One-fourth of DB Plan Sponsors Lack Funding Policy
September 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the Pension Protection Act's (PPA) requirement that defined benefit plan sponsors provide annual funding...
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Equifax Latest to go DB Freeze Route
September 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Declaring that 401(k) plans are "increasingly becoming the standard retirement offering by employers," Equifax has...
GM Steps in on Delphi Plan
September 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Late Friday General Motors Corp. announced a deal to help its former parts unit emerge...
PBGC Threatens $900M Delphi Court Pension Demand
September 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has threatened to go into court to bid for an...
GAO Says Guidance Needed on DB Alternative Investments
September 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Government Accountability Office (GAO), in a new report, recommends that the Department of Labor...
PBGC Threatens $900M Delphi Court Pension Demand
September 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has threatened to go into court to bid for an...
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August Sees Slight Plan Funding Status Dropoff
September 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Funding ratios at the typical U.S. pension plan declined 0.9% in August as liabilities increased...
IRS Expands PPA Transition Relief for Certain Small Plans
September 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Services has issued Notice 2008-73 expanding transitional relief on some funding requirements...