Retirement Trends

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. issued its interest rate assumptions for December that must be used when single-employer pension plans are terminated.

Stocks rose, with the Standard & Poors 500 Index headed toward a second straight weekly advance

Employers are squeezing their workers retirement savings, holding back on both the amount and the timing of 401(k) matching funds and dragging out vesting schedules.

Institutional investors should revisit their approach to constructing equity portfolios to take advantage of innovations in the industry, according to a report by Towers Watson.

However, that improvement varied by age, income and whether individuals had access to a 401(k)-type retirement plan, according to a report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

The survey looked at two groups of women, the Silent Generation, ages 67 to 80, and Generation X, ages 32 to 47, and found 93 percent of the older group was loyal to advisors when left on their own.