Tag: Defined Benefit

April 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The estimated cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, of a U.S. retiree annuity purchase...

April 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Investment management firm Vanguard announced it will cease offering administration services for defined benefit (DB)...

April 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will hold a phone forum about retirement plan terminations.

April 3, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The estimated funding levels of defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies...

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

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Nearly half of defined benefit plan respondents (47%) to a recent survey for Prudential indicate...

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stephen Birmingham joined Taylor Investment Counselors as executive vice president, director of business development.

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the typical U.S. corporate pension plan declined 0.5 percentage points in...

April 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors and retirement committees have been examining their pension plans with the objective of...

April 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) outlined a proposal it says makes it easier for...

April 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CenterSquare Investment Management, Inc. has launched the CenterSquare Value-Added Fund III, L.P.

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

April 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Liability-driven investing (LDI) can be a great choice for defined benefit plans, but the strategy...

March 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Total U.S. retirement assets reached $23 trillion at year-end 2013, growing 15.6% during the year,...

March 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The first quarter of 2014 saw very light pension rebalancing flows, but liability-driven investing (LDI)...

March 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – As more employees retire, plan sponsors need to prepare for the impact on their defined...

March 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – MetLife, Inc. appointed Wayne Daniel as vice president for U.S. pensions within the firm's corporate...

March 24, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Retirement advice professionals must confront some acute challenges in the months and years ahead to...

March 24, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Financial and retirement services provider Prudential has released a checklist to help plan sponsors of...

March 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index, which tracks the relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities,...