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More than half (59 percent) of respondents to a Mercer survey said their company has not attempted to quantify the effectiveness of the retirement program in terms of attracting and retaining staff.

California Democrats introduced a bill in the state senate urging state pensions CalPERS and CalSTRS not to invest future pension funds in Russia, citing that governments treatment of LGBT people.

Assets in these retirement plans totaled $750 billion in 2010 and, if projections hold true, could hit $1 trillion by 2016.

The funded status of the 100 largest corporate defined benefit pension plans improved by a whopping $388 billion in the past year, and $23 billion of that improvement came in July alone.

The City of San Jose aka Silicon Valley has been in court trying to find ways to cut its public-sector pension plan costs.

When Detroit became the biggest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy last month, it turned public attention to the municipal-bond market, where cities and states go to borrow money. Was this sleepy, often-overlooked area of the financial world actually dangerous?

Hundreds of thousands of San Francisco Bay area commuters got at least a temporary reprieve from a massive transit strike when Gov. Jerry Brown ordered an inquiry into a labor contract dispute.

Earnings at state-administered pension systems remained in positive territory in 2012 for the third consecutive year since the Great Recession. Thats the good news. Read on for the bad.