Pensions

Open enrollment offers seniors the opportunity to change their plans and save hundreds of dollars.

Open enrollment offers seniors the opportunity to change their plans and save hundreds of dollars.

Northern Trust research shows that plan sponsors can still do more to aid employees.

Guaranteed pension income fuels spending even in a depressed fiscal climate.

Insurer wins pension-risk transfer deal with paper and packaging company, cementing status as the biggest player in the business of taking on retirement obligations for employers.

Is your plan keeping track of vested former participants who are owed money?

A state appellate court recently ruled that benefit cuts are permissible if the pensions remain "reasonable" for workers.

Midwest city has its credit outlook raised because of the city’s work to shore up its retirement system and avert insolvency for the pensions that don’t have enough money to pay the benefits promised.

The shift away from pensions means “double disadvantages for the less educated,” a study finds.

Denise Nappier says the 0.35% return posted by the state’s $29 billion retirement system in the year that ended in June underscores the need to adopt more realistic investment assumptions.

Retirees over 65 will no longer be able to contribute to health savings accounts once they file for benefits.

Retirees over 65 will no longer be able to contribute to health savings accounts once they file for benefits.

The Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, once applauded for a diverse investment portfolio that included Hawaiian villas, Uruguayan timber and undeveloped land in Arizona, finds itself needing to dig out of a deep hole.

Company after company has repudiated traditional pensions, pushing younger workers into 401(k)-style retirement plans. For diligent savers, a 401(k) can accumulate a big balance, but when the time comes to start using it, things will get a lot more complicated than it was for their parents.

If the junk-rated city wants to improve to investment grade, it must reverse the direction of its mounting retirement debt, according to Naomi Richman, a managing director at Moody’s Investors Service.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. pension fund, named Marcie Frost, 51, as its new chief executive officer.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is now using non-stabilized rates to determine qualification for under $15-million exemption

The expanded Canada Pension Plan is aimed at countering dwindling workplace pension access for younger generations pinched by a weak economy and soaring home prices.

The cost would be triggered if the U.S. Treasury Department approves benefit cuts to protect the solvency of the Central States Pension Fund.

Helping clients understand the pension and benefit plans of seller organizations is an important part of any acquisition.