Tag: Defined Contribution

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,...

June 26, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of Nortel Networks employees not grandfathered into the company's defined benefit plan when...

June 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Boeing Company introduced a new retirement benefit program for nonunion employees hired or rehired...

June 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On Tuesday President Bush signed into law a measure preventing reservists called into active duty...

June 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Media giant Gannett Co. has joined the ranks of employers who have frozen their defined...

June 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - HSBC is proposing changes to the pensions of its 58,000 staff in Britain, who could...

June 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of West Virginia teachers will get the chance to transfer out of their...

June 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined Contribution participants chased performance in the face of first-quarter 2008 volatility with money moving...

May 16, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While recognizing a significant year-over-year uptick in defined contribution participants taking hardship withdrawals, a new...

May 8, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Americans held $17.6 trillion in retirement assets at the end of 2007, up $1.1 trillion...