Search Results

Retirement plan sponsors have faced a very challenging year so far, according to Mercers How Does Your Retirement Program Stack Up? 2012 report.

Employers with large part-time and low-wage populations especially retailers are more likely to take measures to avoid triggering a costly requirement to provide health care coverage to employees that used to be ineligible.

U.S. defined benefit pensions were not the only ones suffering in July, the United Kingdom's pension deficits also rose.

Mercer research shows S&P 1500 pension plans have dropped to a record low aggregate funded ratio of 70 percent, the worst in history.

Many companies are now gearing up for open enrollment, and this is a good time to highlight their benefits offerings. Here are five short items that plan sponsors should have on their open enrollment checklist.

A mixture of record-setting low bond yields and a pattern of weak stock market behavior has drastically increased corporate pension benefits in not only the United States but in Britain as well.

Most employers waited for the Supreme Courts ruling before responding to health care reform provisions that are to be enforced in 2014, according to a survey of 4,000 employers conducted by Mercer, a global human resources consultancy.

Apparently, wait and see is more than just another tired cliche. And its clearly not just brokers embracing Sam Beckets approach to business.