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The American Benefits Council (ABC) testified before the ERISA Advisory Committee (ERIC) to describe the motivations behind employers reducing their pension plan liabilities by “de-risking.”

The market for pension buyouts reached $37 billion last year. Is pension risk transfer (PRT) right for your defined benefit (DB) plan and your company? 

Should retirement income products be offered inside defined contribution (DC) plans or as rollover solutions?

Plan sponsors should consider using alternative investment structures for better risk balance and the reducing of volatility experienced by retirement plan participant, a paper said.

 Elyse Mittenthal and Claire Guido joined UBS’ corporate employee financial service division, and Matthew Strapko, Michaelangelo Dooley and Michael Hersh are new to its participant experience team.  

The funded status of U.S. corporate pension plans increased during May, according to the BNY Mellon Investment Strategy and Solutions Group (ISSG).

Ann Schleck & Co. and ShoeFitts Marketing have teamed up to offer Voilá, a marketing and branding program for retirement plan advisers.

Tools and services focused on employee motivation will lead employees to take effective action to save for retirement, a research paper contends.

ADP released the ADP Plan Health Review, a tool to help plan sponsors measure the retirement readiness of their employees.

People still love their iPhones, but they love them a little bit less than they did a year ago.  

Francesca Truska and David Ramirez joined New York Life Retirement Plan Services as relationship managers in technology and communications.

A court has rejected a retiree’s attempt to continue receiving pension overpayments caused by a glitch in a plan consultant’s computer system.

Lindsay Scott has joined Buck Consultants, a Xerox company, as leader of the global survey team and principal in its knowledge resource center.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Blake Richards, a registered representative of a broker/dealer, with misappropriating retirement savings from widows or widowers.

Light on retirement savings and burdened with student debt, African Americans continue making financial progress, according to the follow-up to Prudential’s 2011 study. 

Many 401(k) retirement plans allow participants to borrow from their accounts, which can lead to defaults and inadequate retirement savings.  

On top of the fine from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), LPL Financial LLC was ordered to establish a $1.5 million fund for customers affected by email...

Morningstar, Inc. expanded its equity coverage with the introduction of quantitative ratings and reports for approximately 28,000 companies globally.

Even through a waning rate environment, the relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities stayed stable.

Overall, target-maturity funds had a good first quarter in terms of performance and asset inflows, according to Morningstar’s Ibbotson Associates.