Tag: Defined Benefit

January 18, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Reason Foundation, in its June 2005 study "The Gathering Pension Storm", recommended terminating defined...

January 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aluminum manufacturing giant Alcoa on Monday joined a parade of companies retreating from their defined...

January 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has issued Technical Update 06-1 which waives reporting by...

January 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The British Airline Pilots Association says it will fight any plans to make its members...

January 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As Northwest Airlines continues its efforts to emerge from US Bankruptcy Court protection, the carrier's...

January 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a move that reflects a continuing trend for defined benefit plans, Milliken & Co....

January 10, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has issued final rules requiring administrators of multiemployer pension plans...

December 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - From an examination of Form 5500 annual reports, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) found...

December 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK authorities have announced that employers operating defined benefit plans would pay a total of...

December 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In response to all the concern about its reported deficit, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The administrator of a life insurance plan should not have refused to pay benefits to...

December 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who freeze their traditional defined benefit pension plans have to fully understand the...

December 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Verizon Communications Inc. has announced that it will freeze its pension plan for managers and...

December 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A potentially controversial report by a blue-ribbon commission charged with recommending reforms to New Jersey's...

December 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Representatives George Miller (D-California) and Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) have asked the Government Accountability Office...

November 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A hearing in US Bankruptcy Court on Delta Air Lines' request to void its contract...

October 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United Auto Workers (UAW) warned Tuesday that bankrupt Delphi Corp. wants to freeze its...

October 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Most global companies with multinational retirement programs don't have the typical controls in place for...

October 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Massachusetts property management firm has agreed to a $126,000 settlement deal to dispose of...

October 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - UK government officials have announced that they will no longer factor in the notion that...