Data and Research | April 29th, 2024 Women Express Concern about Retirement Crisis, Long-Term Care Costs As women face a bigger uphill battle when it comes to retirement savings, many expressed support for the return of...
Benefits | January 17th, 2024 Market Strong for Plan Sponsors to De-Risk DB Plans, According to Agilis The pension and investments manager expects de-risking strategies to remain attractive in 2024.
Investing | July 12th, 2023 US Corporate Pension Funded Status Sees Significant Jump in June The funded status reached its highest level since before the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009, according to one analyst...
Investing | June 13th, 2023 US Pension Funded Status Continues to Improve in May A drop in liabilities outweighed poor asset performance in May, causing funded status to modestly increase, according to firms’ analysis.
Data and Research | April 26th, 2023 Aging Population, Higher Life Expectancy Put Pressure on Global Pension Systems The sustainability of public pension plans comes into question, as average life expectancy is projected to rise to 77.3 years...
Benefits | April 18th, 2023 Several States Approve COLA Increases for Pension Funds, Other States Still Considering COLA boosts to pension distributions have been proposed in Pennsylvania and Texas, while they have already been announced in Maryland...
Investing | July 31st, 2020 Institutional Investment Returns Rebound in Second Quarter Plan sponsors saw significant investment gains, with a median plan return of 10.6%, according to Northern Trust.
Administration | October 2nd, 2019 Lower Asset Growth Hampers State and Local Pension Outlook While liability growth has declined in the past two decades, asset growth has been even slower.
Compliance | March 7th, 2019 Investment Adviser Sentenced for Defrauding Pension Plan The Department of Labor found the investment adviser made 63 fraudulent requests to Transamerica for lump sum benefit checks for...
Data and Research | September 17th, 2018 Over Half of Americans Have Nothing Saved in a Retirement Account The median retirement account balance among all U.S. workers is "zilch"
Administration | July 27th, 2018 Four Multiemployer Pension Plans Apply to Reduce Benefits They are seeking reductions as high as 50%.
Data and Research | May 29th, 2018 Groups Offer Blueprint for New Social Contract for Retirement The blueprint calls for nine design features of the new contract.
Administration | April 20th, 2018 DB Plans Accelerating Contributions Due to Tax Reform This enables corporations to expense their contributions at a higher tax rate, according to Cerulli.
Administration | January 25th, 2018 Public Pensions Produced Solid Returns in 2017 Yet they also adopted more conservative investment assumptions, according to the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems.
Administration | September 14th, 2017 MOSERS Announces Lump-Sum Offering for Certain Members The state is trying a pension risk transfer option commonly used by corporate plan sponsors.