Defined Benefits

Pension funding, liabilities numbers change with the controversial yet permissible accounting practice of pension smoothing.

UPSs pension plans in the U.S. had a $9.85 billion shortfall at the end of last year.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the California Public Employees Retirement System took too long to file its lawsuit stemming from the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.

When it comes to grading teachers' pensions, no state got even an A or a B, while all of New England flunked.

Trustees for New York City's five pensions voted to become the first retirement funds in the U.S. to divest assets in private prison companies.

Litigation against church retirement plans is expected to continue despite a Supreme Court decision some call 'monumental.'