Administration

April 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Liability-driven investing (LDI) can be a great choice for defined benefit plans, but the strategy has its downsides, says Bob Schmidt of the...

March 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently made analyses related to money market fund reform available to the public.

March 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Setting specific funded status goals for defined benefit (DB) plans can help sponsors and investment committees improve performance, says a new research paper...

March 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In prior decades, international and emerging market stocks were good investments to get diversification for a retirement plan portfolio, but things have changed.

March 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The ongoing recovery of the U.S. economy may be strengthened by six particular profit themes, says a new analysis.

March 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The first quarter of 2014 saw very light pension rebalancing flows, but liability-driven investing (LDI) and de-risking strategies continue to pick up steam.

March 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – While retirement plan sponsors will find the market for getting into stable value funds has improved, the threat of rising interest rates poses...

March 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In 2013, a solid majority of multiemployer pension plans (59%) were in the green zone as defined by the Pension Protection Act of...

March 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Over the last year, the funded status of Detroit’s two pension plans has decreased.

March 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index, which tracks the relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities, remained basically unchanged through February and into March.

March 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) will allocate additional money to its emerging manager program in the private equity asset class, using...

March 20, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – For the United States, the estimated cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, of a retiree annuity purchase remained level during January at...

March 20, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The financial health of the largest U.S. corporate defined benefit (DB) pension plans improved during 2013, says a new analysis.

March 19, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even the best laid plans can go off track, and this is true for defined benefit plan portfolios.

March 17, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A strong recovery in asset values and pension funding levels hasn’t slowed the pace of change in institutional investment portfolio strategies, according to...

March 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New mortality tables for defined benefit (DB) pension plans will increase pension liabilities, according to a new research paper.

March 13, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has issued its second list of assets managers it says “have directly backed initiatives that the harm...

March 13, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The funded status of pension plans showed an improvement in February, compared with figures from January, says a new analysis from Russell Investments.

March 12, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Group pension buyouts experienced strong sales during 2013, says a new survey.

March 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Defined benefit plan sponsors have a window of opportunity to take action on pension risk.