Defined Benefits

A PBGC waiver resulted in critical information going unreported since the pension-smoothing provisions of MAP-21 and HATFA were enacted--a new proposal aims to fix that.

Almost half of sponsors to defined benefit plans will consider some form of lump-sum payouts in the next two years, according to the Mercer-CFO Research 2015 Risk Survey.

A proposed bill would extend the ability to use excess pension funding through 2025, from the current 2021 sunset date established in 2012.

Opponents of the DOL conflict of interest rule are rushing to document versions of Armageddon that would befall the retirement advisory industry if anything resembling the proposed provisions come to pass.

Sponsors of defined benefit pension funds will be prohibited in most cases from offering retirees already receiving pension checks a lump-sum buyout.

Most multiemployer plans are posting funding levels that rival defined benefit plans, this survey shows.

Liabilities dropped, improving pension-funding ratios, in spite of new mortality tables.

The Keep Our Pension Promises Act of 2015 was introduced yesterday by Sen. Bernie Sanders, to repeal the Kline-Miller Multiemployer Pension Reform Act. It would prohibit trustees from reducing retirees benefits.