Opinions

June 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With increased equity market volatility and recent changes in accounting rules, many companies are taking a second look at their approach to incentive...

June 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Are you speaking to your employees or just at them?

June 24, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - From 10 Downing Street, the official home to the British Prime Minister, to David Letterman’s “Top 10” on the “Late Show,” the number ten...

June 20, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - How can the retirement plan industry and small business community work together to help workers achieve a secure retirement?

June 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined contribution (DC) plans are not a new concept. What is new is the convergence of health and retirement benefits.

June 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan participants trust their employers, or plan sponsors, to provide them with the resources, tools and information necessary to plan their retirement readiness.

June 6, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – What do you know about revenue sharing? If your answer is anything other than, “a lot”, it’s really important that you read on.

June 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that, for plan years on or after 1/1/14, group health plans may not impose...

June 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As with various other major Western economies, the United States has in recent decades seen its retirement plan landscape shift away from defined...

May 29, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In U.S. v. Windsor, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a clear message: Same-sex marriages should be equal to opposite-sex marriages in the eyes...

May 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Active share helps plan sponsors monitor and manage portfolio style drift.

May 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - We're at a really interesting inflection point in our industry.

May 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is designed to protect the financial interests of retirement plan participants by governing the manner in...

May 12, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The “Move It” strategy for defined benefit (DB) plan de-risking applies to plan sponsors with zero pension risk tolerance or the relatively few...

May 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It’s easy these days to find articles about defined benefit (DB) plan lump-sum windows and plan termination.

May 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On February 12, 2014, Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published long-awaited final regulations on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s...

May 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At Milliman, we refer to our framework for pension plan de-risking strategies as “The Three M’s,” because plan sponsors can handle risk by...

May 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Which statement is true: Having an investment policy statement (IPS) can increase liability, or having an IPS can decrease liability?

April 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Before de-risking their plans, defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors need to fully understand the risks.

April 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The debate over investing in actively managed funds versus passive index funds will probably go on forever.