Tag: defined benefit (DB) plans

Respondents to an NCPERS survey shared success stories, strategies for reducing liabilities and “other” investments they use.

This is the third pension risk transfer action the company has implemented.

Premiums have gone up, and the agency says it has simplified reporting requirements for risk transfer activities.

Plan sponsors will need to consider whether in 2020, as in 2019, stock market returns will be great enough to...

Ryan McGlothlin and Michael Clark, with River and Mercantile, say it’s imperative to first understand the nature of future cash...

The media company has asked for legislative relief and is in discussions with the PBGC about a distress termination of...

The agency says the third six-year remedial amendment cycle for pre-approved defined benefit (DB) plans begins on May 1, 2020,...

Recent studies find 401(k)s have increased retirement savings gaps among demographic groups, and those in 401(k)s have not met their...

The PBGC has issued a final rule regarding pension plans undergoing distress or involuntary termination, and the OSFI has released...

Though down for the year, DB plan sponsors have seen upticks in funded status for three straight months, and sources...

Willis Towers Watson says the pension plan landscape is quickly changing, as returns will be lower while volatility is likely...

Michael Barry, president of O3 Plan Advisory Services LLC, discusses how interest rate “stabilization” is still needed in this era...

They favor active management, most have turned to private markets, and nearly half are using scenario analysis to prepare portfolios...

About three-quarters of plans surveyed by NEPC with a funded status of 90% or higher have utilized liability-driven investing (LDI).

They are lengthening bond durations and increasing liability-hedging fixed income allocations, a Vanguard survey found.

This is due to positive equity returns; however, plan sponsors will likely see a pension liability increase on year-end balance...

Corporate ERISA pension plans reported the highest median return of the three segments tracked, and had the highest allocation to...

This protection by the PBGC is one reason for a string of lawsuits that challenge other nonprofit healthcare systems’ retirement...