Tag: Defined benefit

The association wants to help sponsors better prepare participants for retirement.

Nearly all plan sponsors—99%—decreased their discount rates last year, to a level that is unlikely to be reversed in 2015, because of the small change in yield curves...

Mercer has outlined key investment issues it says DB plan sponsors should focus on in the new year.

The agency will post a notice about what's new for practitioners in January.

A new report published by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College offers a historical perspective on retirement plan investment returns by type, dating back to the...

Nearly 15% of large DB plans experienced some type of risk transfer activity during a five-year period.

Today’s informed plan sponsors are now looking for more than payout annuity providers. 

Advisers may want to recommend defined benefit plan sponsors pursue more active strategies and different asset classes.

Clients with pension plans undergoing distress or involuntary termination should know the agency issued a new table for determining expected retirement ages for participants.

Mercer expands defined benefit capabilities within BenefitsCentral participant website.

The third quarter of 2015 was the first time $3 billion in pension buy-out sales were recorded in consecutive quarters.

The SEC this week voted to propose rules to enhance operational transparency and regulatory oversight of alternative trading systems—and the activities of brokers using them. 

One career actuary tells PLANADVISER unrelenting increases in PGGC premiums belie a lack of forward-thinking policy and are more likely to harm than help overall U.S. retirement readiness. 

The Internal Revenue Service is implementing new market rate of return rules for hybrid pension plans. 

Global equity returns weighed heavily on the median returns for all plan types in the third quarter, according to Wilshire Associates.

However, Corporate ERISA plans were the relative best performer among plan types last quarter.

Fortune 1000 companies with frozen pension plans went conservative in 2014, while open plans took a bit more risk.

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 includes some good news about funding calculations and mortality tables, but there is some bad news in it too.

It’s happened before and it will happen again—a hike in PBGC premiums and shifting SOA mortality projections have materially raised the cost of running a pension plan.