Defined Benefits

The shift to more cautious investing is seen as a fundamental change, not a short-term trend.

The Social Security Administration saved millions of dollars when it stopped sending annual benefit statements.

While there are pockets of success, state plans last year had 75 percent of what they needed to meet retirement obligations.

A Prudential white paper spells out five common beliefs it has identified as acting as deterrents to derisking, and debunks them one by one.

Ted Eliopoulos, current interim CIO, succeeds the late Joe Dear.

The Absolute Return Strategies program includes 24 hedge funds and six hedge funds-of-funds valued at approximately $4 billion.

Plan sponsors would have a greater ability, beyond current limits, to derisk their defined benefits plans.

Congress this week is turning its attention to the countrys retirement security crisis in a way that many industry watchers say is long overdue.