Tag: Pension funding

The Butch Lewis Act offers a way to preserve union retiree pension benefits through an emergency loan program funded with...

Passionate testimony from a Teamster to the Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans appeared to outshine...

The chief investment officer at Winthrop Capital Management discusses the uptick in short term interest rates and new opportunities within...

Tens of thousands of employers in the U.S. contribute to multiemployer pension funds that are in critical and declining status,...

Ryan Labs president Richard Familetti reflects on the increasingly prominent role of investment consultants in helping to shape LDI strategies...

Strong asset returns and an increase in voluntary contribution activity drove DB plan funded levels significantly higher over the last...

An open letter penned by Connecticut State Treasurer Denise Nappier presents an articulate defense and endorsement of ESG investing programs—in...

Under a new bill in the California legislature, the state’s Human Resources Department would administer and oversee a defined contribution-type...

Voya Investment Management has pledged to adopt six basic principles to promote and support the use of environmental, social and...

The index’s ninth edition looks at how unsustainable pension systems in some countries need to learn from leading countries or...

Discussion in the new appellate decision lays out some important distinctions regarding the initial district court’s decision to dismiss the...

If IRS adds additional disaster areas in connection with its own filing extensions, any person responsible for meeting a PBGC...

The Annual Funding Notice requirements implemented by the Pension Protection Act have been somewhat helpful but could be significantly improved,...

A study by the CRR finds that state and local pension funding is expected to improve in 2017 due to...

Retirement plan industry stakeholders are asked what objectives and projects the pension insurance agency should prioritize in the years ahead. 

The purpose of the measurement determines which number is “right,” according to the American Academy of Actuaries.

Still, funded status is up for the year, according to one firm’s estimates.

American General Life Insurance Company and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company have agreed to take on $1 billion of Accenture’s...

An analysis covering the years 2006 through 2014 shows most of the 160 plans studied received insufficient employer contributions to...

The differences depend on what DB plans are tracked or how DB funded status is tracked.