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Defined Benefit Plan
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Here’s Why (Again) 401ks Are So Important
In 2016, the stars appeared to align for defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Interest rates rose. Stock market…
September 19, 2017
What’s the Funding Status of Your Client’s 401k Plan?
In the world of defined benefit (DB) plans, retirement plan sponsors embrace a liability-based framework for measuring investment…
September 8, 2017
Shock (Not)! Public Employees Like Pensions
Even though public and private sector employers find them impossible to afford, a new study reports that public…
August 23, 2017
Are Multiemployer Plans in Trouble or Not?
The financial crisis last decade walloped multiemployer retirement plans, most notably the Teamsters and United Mineworkers of America.…
August 22, 2017
Will Public Sector Retirement Problems Point to 401(k)s?
Are 401ks the answer? An overreliance on public-pension promises has many government employees on shaky retirement ground, as…
June 23, 2017
Police Dogs to Get Defined Benefit Plans
For the fiscally conservative canine lover, this will be very confusing. The Sacramento Bee’s Jim Miller reports on…
June 15, 2017
Agency Predicts ‘$224 Trillion Retirement Gap’ (Seriously)
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together—mass hysteria. Not to be flip about the World Economic Forum’s prediction of…
May 26, 2017
What’s a ‘Hybrid’ 401(k) and Why Is It So Popular?
Cash balance plans, those quirky—and increasingly popular—defined benefit/401(k) hybrids, saw a 19 percent annual increase and a rise…
July 7, 2016
More 401(k) Fraud by the Mainstream Media
Ever wonder why journalists rank about as high as Boko Haram on the popularity scale with the general public?…
March 4, 2016
Percentage of Employers Still Offering Defined Benefits is …
The shift from defined benefit plans to 401(k)s has been swift and dramatic, but here’s a stat that…
February 22, 2016