Tag: Defined Contribution

May 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Brandeis University has announced plans to suspend its retirement plan match for faculty and staff...

May 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer's first-quarter 2009 Defined Contribution Universe Summary found losses in all equity markets during the...

May 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A May 2009 survey by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) found more...

May 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the first time, the majority of Fortune 100 companies now offer new salaried employees...

April 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Facing a decline in corporate sponsorships, National Public Radio announced layoffs and benefits changes in...

April 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2009 PensionDCisions Sponsor Default Investment Strategy Survey finds that on average 81% of UK...

April 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Meredith College President Maureen Hartford sent out a letter to faculty, staff and students on...

March 31, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new survey by investment firm PIMCO finds that defined contribution plan sponsors are most...

March 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total U.S. retirement market assets, including both defined contribution and defined benefit plans, tumbled 24%...

March 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Callan DC Index declined 15.5% in the fourth quarter for a total loss of...

February 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Britain's defined contribution (DC) pension assets have lost 35% of their value - £140 billion...

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...