Tag: Defined Benefit

March 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mostly due to gains in the financial markets, total retirement plan assets reached $15.6 trillion...

March 27, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. retirement plan assets have nearly doubled in value since 1997, according to Watson Wyatt...

March 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has unveiled a new tool to help defined benefit plan sponsors...

March 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) announced it will publish a proposed regulation providing a...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it will publish a final rule to amend...

March 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that...

March 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that a pension...

March 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a measure tuning up the Pension Protection Act (PPA),...

March 12, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many employers who have followed the craze of moving from defined benefit to defined contribution...

March 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has put on hold an order by a federal judge in...

March 6, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials have advised pension plan sponsors that they should continue using...

March 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new Hewitt Associates survey of the U.S. retirement landscape finds the pace of defined...

February 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new lawsuit has accused a group of insurance companies, consultants, and lawyers of conspiring...

February 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mercer's Summary Performance of US Institutional Portfolios survey shows institutional plans posted negative fourth-quarter returns,...

February 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments reported that recordkept assets in its defined contribution (DC) services business grew 8%...

February 5, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by federal employees in Alaska and Hawaii...

February 4, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kentucky state appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that the Lexington Urban...

February 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.K. Pensions Regulator has released a road map plan sponsors can use to help...

January 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that, when proposed regulations regarding...

January 31, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Northern Trust has added Liability Benchmarking to its Investment Risk & Analytical Services product offering...