Administration

April 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employers are finding more reasons to de-risk their defined benefit (DB) retirement plans, says a new analysis from Buck Consultants.

April 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Frozen plans will inevitably be terminated, says James Gannon of Russell Investments. It’s just a matter of when, not if.

April 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Some defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors are reluctant to transfer liabilities to an insurer, saying it is too expensive, particularly compared with the...

April 22, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New research indicates defined benefit (DB) plans will turn increasingly to alternative investments during 2014.

April 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Rhode Island state court has refused to dismiss a challenge to pension reforms filed by state retirees.

April 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration today approved new contribution rates for the state of California and contracting school...

April 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) — The aggregate funded status of the 100 largest U.S. corporate defined benefit (DB) pension plans fell by $5 billion during March, as measured by...

April 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Negotiators for Detroit’s two pension boards have agreed to limited retiree benefit reductions.

April 15, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Strong global equity market performance and higher liability discount rates worked wonders on the funded status of S&P 500 Index companies during 2013,...

April 15, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – More multiemployer pension plans have a favorable projected funding status for 2014.

April 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Market conditions like those seen in 2013 benefited those plan sponsors that had not yet moved to de-risk their defined benefit (DB) plans.

April 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The estimated cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, of a U.S. retiree annuity purchase decreased during February from 108.5% to 108.4%, according...

April 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New bankruptcy paperwork filed by city of Detroit includes benefits reductions for the city’s two public pension funds.

April 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The estimated funding levels of defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies decreased 2% in March to 85%, according to...

April 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The average funding ratios of U.S. pension plans saw a decrease during the first quarter of 2014, says a recent analysis.

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Nearly half of defined benefit plan respondents (47%) to a recent survey for Prudential indicate they utilize a liability driven investing (LDI) strategy.

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than $30 billion in economic activity was generated by retirement benefits paid to California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) members.

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan declined 0.5 percentage points in March to 92.1%, according to the BNY Mellon...

April 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A lawsuit filed by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) pension fund claims New York investment manager Alphonse Fletcher Jr. defrauded investors of...

March 31, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – For February, the average cost of purchasing annuities from an insurer decreased slightly from 108.5% to 108.4% of the accounting liability, according to...