Tag: multiemployer plans

PBGC Director Gordon Hartogensis says if Congress fails to act soon then after year 2025, any future revenue to the...

A multiemployer plan was found to have brought a viable claim for a withdrawal contribution required in its trust documents.

A final rule from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) allows smaller plans terminated by mass withdrawal to perform actuarial...

Employees of Kroger say Central States’ plan trustees refused to negotiate a proposal with them after they filed an ERISA...

“Equity exposure weighed on plan performance in the fourth quarter,” says Jason Schwarz, president, Wilshire Analytics and Wilshire Funds Management.

The proposed amendments would affect the determination of a withdrawing employer's liability under a multiemployer plan and annual withdrawal liability...

The new instructions include an expanded list of common filing errors.

Michael Barry, president of October Three (O3) Plan Advisory Services LLC, points out that, while the candidates for the midterm...

A table on the PBGC’s website shows that the flat-rate premium for single-employer plans has grown from $31 in 2007...

Elliot Dinkin, CEO, Cowden Associates, discusses what plan sponsors should consider about participating in a multiemployer, or Taft-Hartley, plan.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation says that mergers can protect the benefits earned by workers and retirees and extend the...

The agency identifies information that would be helpful for plan sponsors to provide to help it evaluate proposed alternative terms...

Institutional assets tracked by Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service (Wilshire TUCS) posted an all-plan median return of 0.88% for second...

The likelihood the program will remain solvent after FY 2026 is now less than 1%.

The 9th Circuit depended on its own precedent in finding that unpaid contributions to employee benefit funds are not plan...

Regarding guidance to assist multiemployer pension plans that request PBGC review of alternative plan rules for satisfying employer withdrawal liability,...

Based on a partial year of data for 2016, 1.3% of all employers withdrew, affecting 19% of plans that covered...

In addition to being barred as serving as a fiduciary for five years, the fund manager is ordered to make...

The move is designed to protect pensions for Kroger associates who participate in the Central States Pension Fund, which is...

Michael Barry, president of the Plan Advisory Services Group, discusses how the accounting measures for multiemployer plans contributed to their...