Administration

Two Plan Sponsor of the Year awards winners shared ways their advisers helped them.

Asset managers that monitor DB plan funded status found 1% through 1.3% increases last month.

Specific policy changes and plan sponsor initiatives can make guaranteed lifetime income a norm in the DC plan space, TIAA suggests.

Researchers examine three levers that defined benefit plans can use to enhance portfolio outcomes in a low-interest-rate environment.

Prudential will formally assume responsibility for pension benefits for approximately 45,000 former employees or their beneficiaries receiving less than $450 in monthly benefit payments from the plan.

Aon shows only 6% of U.S. corporate DB plan obligations have actually been settled since 2012.

The best practices tell retirement plan recordkeepers how they should report their cyber security capabilities to plan sponsors and advisers.

“Companies feel that the time is right to reduce or eliminate their pension funding shortfalls.” says Matt McDaniel, partner, Mercer.

There have been a rash of third-party administrator (TPA) acquisitions recently, and TPAs are offering new services.

The state is trying a pension risk transfer option commonly used by corporate plan sponsors.

Asset management firms estimate pension funding ratios declined slightly in August, but most say they are up for the year.

The most common preparatory steps taken include an evaluation of the financial impact of a pension risk transfer; discussions with stakeholders; data review/cleanup; and, exploration of the PRT...

The lack of understanding of Roth contributions, should Congress move to limit pre-tax savings, will cause significant confusion and potentially a significant drop in savings, a new analysis...

Immediate eligibility and no entry age requirement would help Generation Z benefit from the time value of money.

If the target-date fund (TDF) is the most important feature of a given retirement plan, shouldn’t the choice of TDF set the stage for the recordkeeper search?

Even the plan sponsors that have not implemented a pension risk transfer say costs from changing mortality assumptions and rising PBGC premiums would make them more likely to...