Administration

With plenty of nudges from the government and increasing concern about participant retirement readiness, now is the time to consider in-plan guaranteed income solutions.

Defined contribution (DC) assets now represent more than 48% of global retirement assets, according to Willis Towers Watson.

New York City’s Bureau of Asset Management has to improve its pension oversight, the report says.

How should health plan sponsors adjust their strategies with new ACA reporting and Cadillac tax deadline extensions?

Market volatility, longevity and PBGC premiums are prompting sponsors to take a harder look at funding levels.

Researchers found that for 92 cities, the unfunded liability as a percentage of revenue rises from 37% before GASB 68 pension accounting standards to 70% after.

Church plan legislation provides an immediate opportunity for plan sponsors to affect participant outcomes through auto enrollment; the effect of other provisions remains to be seen.

There is always a strong push and pull moving the industry in one direction or another, observes Josh Cohen, a 20-plus year industry veteran currently running DC business...

What is driving DB plan sponsors to freeze their plans or change accounting methods, and is there anything that can be done about ballooning costs for these plans?

When funds charge revenue-sharing fees, the playing field becomes lopsided.

The aggregate funded ratio decreased from 81.3% to 80.0% for the year.

More than half of dioceses plan to freeze or terminate their pension plans, a survey found last year.

Pension funding ratios for the typical U.S. corporate defined benefit pension plan rose over the fourth quarter of 2015.

Despite volatile equity markets, interest rate rises helped fuel a 3% increase in the pension funded status of Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 1500 companies, according to data from...

The aggregate funded ratio for U.S. corporate pension plans rose slightly in 2015, according to year-end data from Wilshire Consulting, following a dip of close to 1% in...

Towers Watson estimates the aggregate pension funded status of 413 Fortune 1000 companies reached 82% at the end of 2015—the same as it was at the end of...

Coffman Engineers felt limited by searching for advisers in its local area.

Movement towards transferring DB sponsors’ pension obligations continued in 2015 despite concerns voiced by participants, lawmakers and regulators.

Each year PLANSPONSOR provides all the information plan sponsors need and want to know during its annual conference.

Nearly all plan sponsors—99%—decreased their discount rates last year, to a level that is unlikely to be reversed in 2015, because of the small change in yield curves...