Defined Benefits

New Jerseys largest public pension funds are taking a new approach to getting Governor Chris Christie to make billions of dollars in skipped contributions.

A hit to median pension funding levels is only partially offset by favorable returns on pension plan assets in 2014.

A study looking at 50 state pension plans reveals the good, the mediocre, and the ugly--here's a ranking of state pensions by the percentage of their pensions that were funded.

Pension obligations remain an onerous burden for the worst-funded municipalities.

A PBGC waiver resulted in critical information going unreported since the pension-smoothing provisions of MAP-21 and HATFA were enacted--a new proposal aims to fix that.

Almost half of sponsors to defined benefit plans will consider some form of lump-sum payouts in the next two years, according to the Mercer-CFO Research 2015 Risk Survey.