Defined Benefits

Almost a third of plan sponsors indicated that their retirement plans were audited by the IRS or Department of Labor, says Willis Towers Watson.

Thanks to Brexit, the estimated aggregate funding level of pension plans sponsored by S&P 1500 companies dropped by 3 percent.

Employees aren't contributing to their public pensions as much. Neither are employers.

Insurance companies have been snapping up pension risk deals, and MetLife and MassMutual are the latest.

The private sector is showing an uptick in interest in multiple employer retirement plans, according to testimony at a bi-partisan roundtable hosted by the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Julio Portalatin, CEO of consultant Mercer, is again speaking out against premium increases for the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. that went into effect with the passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.