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  Low interest rates wallop retirees

  By Melanie Waddell  |  May 14, 2013

  The low-interest-rate environment “has an extremely large impact on failure rates” when it comes to meeting retirement goals, says EBRI.

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  Retirement plan consultants offer tips for providers

  By Danielle Andrus  |  April 29, 2013

  A survey of retirement plan consultants by Oculus Partners identified some changes service providers need to make to their businesses in order to grow.

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  Workers need to put more dollars in DC plans

  By Maria Wood  |  April 25, 2013

  To use a football analogy, workers must go long and deep in their defined contribution (DC) plans. In other words, they need to throw more dollars into those plans and for longer periods. That was one of the takeaways from a briefing held yesterday in New York City on retirement...

• Mercer US Pension Buyout Index held steady in first quarter

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  April 19, 2013

  The Mercer US Pension Buyout Index for March showed retiree buyout costs accounted for 110 percent of the accounting liability.

• Party of one

  By Jerry Manning and Tom Riekse Jr.  |  March 1, 2013

  Right now, there’s only one “true group” long-term care insurance carrier actively offering new business plans. So why would employers still look at LTCI as a vital retirement planning protection product? It’s because a product line initially designed for small groups—multi-life individual LTCI contracts—is now moving to the big time.

• Mercer launches U.S. Pension Buyout Index

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  February 28, 2013

  Mercer launched its U.S. Pension Buyout Index, which allows plan sponsors to see at a glance how much it would cost to have an insurer buy out their retiree liabilities from a defined benefit plan and how that cost changes over time.

• Despite major contributions, Ford’s DB gap still widening

  By Andy Stonehouse  |  February 1, 2013

  Even with 14.2 percent earnings on its investments, the automaker is seeing a rapidly increasing global pension deficit, topping $18.7 billion.

• Employers, employees less optimistic about finances in 2013

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  January 16, 2013

  Even though employers and employees alike are doing better four years after the Recession began, both groups say they are less optimistic about how they will be doing financially a year from now.

• UK retirement system to adopt fee disclosures

  By Andy Stonehouse  |  January 15, 2013

  Private pension companies in the U.K. will be forced to reveal the investment and operating fees and the costs to employee retirement savings, all part of an agreement created by the Association of British Insurers.

• Young retirement savers motivated by onsite education

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  December 14, 2012

  Prudential Retirement research shows that Millennials are highly motivated to save and will plan ahead, provided they know more about benefit options from their employers.