Tag: Defined Contribution (DC)

February 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement assets fell 5.9% from $16.9 trillion to $15.9 trillion during the third quarter of...

February 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Greenwich Associates' new U.S. Defined Contribution Pension Plan Research Study indicates almost 79% of eligible...

February 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - About two-thirds of workers in a new study identified a defined contribution plan as the...

February 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While media accounts may be full of reports of employer decisions to suspend their retirement...

January 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Global institutional pension fund assets in 11 major markets shrank by approximately 19% during 2008,...

January 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More households own mutual funds inside tax-deferred accounts—such as defined contribution (DC) plans, individual retirement...

December 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -American savers held $16.9 trillion in retirement assets at the end of the second quarter of...

December 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The list of retirement plan victims of a huge Ponzi scheme authorities claim was run...

December 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Investment Company Institute (ICI) and Securities Industry and Financial Markets Associate (SIFMA) report...

December 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Motorola on Wednesday announced it was freezing its defined benefit pension plan on March 1,...

December 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even as news reports of companies suspending employer match contributions to defined contribution plans continue,...

December 11, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined contribution plan activity rose as participants reacted to economic turmoil by reallocating their portfolios...

November 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey, not surprisingly, has found that corporate employers are most likely to offer...

November 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Asia have undertaken far more extensive and fundamental pension...

November 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite volatile investment markets, the freezing and terminating of defined benefit plans, and limited formation...

September 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Declaring that 401(k) plans are "increasingly becoming the standard retirement offering by employers," Equifax has...

August 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The economic efficiencies inherent in a defined benefit retirement plan makes it a less costly...

August 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Center for State and Local Government Excellence announced that for the first time detailed...

June 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area reported in a survey that defined contribution programs represent...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the retirement services industry's growing focus on providing workers with a retirement income stream,...