Administration

A Vanguard update to its analysis of older retirement plan participants’ distribution behavior has implications for the design of target-date funds and retirement income programs.

A plan-year reset doesn’t have to be a problem for retirement plan sponsors, as long as they plan it carefully.

Are certain industries more focused on winning the benefits game, and if so, why?

Assets in the 100 largest U.S. corporate pension plans fell $42 billion during the rocky equities market.

The beginning of the school year is a great time to get public school employees on track for a secure retirement.

Retirement plan sponsors should understand their rights and ability to access past records after a change in recordkeeper or TPA.

Retirement plan sponsors need a strategy for education, but an actual policy statement may not be needed.

The aggregate funded ratio for U.S. corporate pension plans decreased nearly 3%.

S&P 1500 pension funded status weathered a volatile month with a 2% decline, Mercer says.

Employees with deferred vested benefits under the firm’s pension plan may elect to receive a lump-sum payment.

There’s been a tug of war, of sorts, over the best design for K-12 school district 403(b) plans, but some say they should strike a balance between old...

They now comprise 28% of all defined benefit plans.

The Principal will assume obligation for pension benefits of certain retirees of the Lincoln Electric Company.

Recordkeeping systems are not as varied as they used to be, but there are still questions plan sponsors need to ask.

While establishing processes to comply with IRS regulations, a school district in Illinois decided it wanted a better plan for itself and plan participants.

Decreasing rates that increased pension liability counteracted the positive effects from asset returns on the funded status of plans, Aon Hewitt says.

After this year health care plan sponsors will only have two more open enrollment periods to make changes before the introduction of the much-maligned “ACA Cadillac Tax.”

The fourth and final article in a series about how to boost retirement plan participant engagement and outcomes beyond automatically enrolling employees.

It’s been something of a common monthly performance story for pension plans in recent years, with decreasing rates overpowering increasing markets.

“The misery of uncertainty is worse than the certainty of misery,” commented one retirement industry expert, on the release of 2016 IRS static mortality tables.