Retirement benefits

A comprehensive guide to how these provisions affect employees' retirement plannings from organizations of all sizes.

Defined contribution plan participants will seriously diminish their retirement savings if they prematurely cash out all or part of their 401(k) savings account balances.

If the court ends up making this choice, intended family members may lose out — all for want of filling out a one-page form.

While recessions are almost impossible to predict, employers can plan for the financial impact caused by workforce adjustments that inevitably happen every year.

Early retirement is on the rise during the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s how employers can support employees and offset talent loss.

Financial practitioner Aaron Brown takes a look at the logic behind modern day 401(k) plans.

The carrier will take a charge of as much as $3.3 billion to cover the costs of early retirement and voluntary separation plans for employees, as it scales back operations amid a plunge in travel.

A rise in equity and bond markets has fueled a partial bounce back in corporate pensions, according to data from Willis Towers Watson.

Amid economic uncertainty of the pandemic and following the passage of the SECURE Act, momentum could be building for retirement income in workplace plans.

Early retirement has been a key driver in the decline in labor-force participation due to COVID-19.