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The chairman of an Ohio House panel has scheduled a string of hearings next month on the fiscal health of the state's five public retirement funds.

The poverty risk for older Americans increases 50 percent if they do not have a defined benefit pension plan to fall back on, according to a new study by the National Institute on Retirement Security.

The long-held expectations of financial returns as seen in a decade ago are beginning to paralyze the nation's largest public pension plans, and their future.

Despite years of underfunding by state and local governments, most public pension plans are solidly funded and are experiencing a robust recovery from the Great Recession, according to Hank Kim, executive director and counsel of the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS).

Guardian annuities head describes trends and challenges in the market - and how to make the concept of annuities less confusing to clients

Here's a great way to thrill the wife: Tell her you're personally day-trading all of your retirement savings in the stock market. The aggressive strategy has worked. Sometimes.

The nation's largest public pension fund collected a dismal 1 percent annual return on its investments, a figure far short of projections that will likely bring pressure on California's state and local governments to contribute more money, officials said Monday.

The disparate retirement treatment given to GM and Delphi workers was alternatively lauded and disparaged during a politically-charged hearing before the House Tuesday.