Theres something reassuring about the way David Pittard handles his business. His methods of finding cost solutions through health and welfare management have been time-tested and successful. But in a post-reform era, Pittard faces his biggest challenges yet, with hope that the opportunities will prevail.

In order to execute new health reform provisions, actuaries say the individual mandate is too vital to be repealed. And if it is repealed, there better be alternatives.

Research shows proposed changes to tax exclusion on retirement plans will affect lower-income workers

PIMCO, a leading global investment management firm, has hired Michael Cogswell as a Senior Vice President in the firm's Retirement Solutions Team.

David Musto will become the chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services (RPS), according to an announcement Wednesday.

Retirement confidence has hit a wall. It’s bad enough when workers in private employer plans are fumbling for a revolutionary turnaround with their accounts, but when lawmakers can’t pay up on pension promises, the need for a better alternative becomes evident.

House Ways and Means Committee members have introduced legislation designed to spur more employee-ownership in private industry.

Milliman’s Pension Funding Study released Tuesday showed decline in discount rates fueled record levels of pension expense for sponsors of the nation’s largest defined benefit pension plans.