Defined Benefits

The National Institute on Retirement Security says defined benefit plans support 6.2 million jobs in the U.S.

What one of the nation's leading private equity firms is telling plans sponsors with questions about its push into Americans' retirement plans.

With more long-term expatriates than ever before, employers are turning to more flexible plans to help their global workforce prepare for retirement.

It says the Railroad Retirement Board's total and permanent disability program are vulnerable to fraud.

Leaders of the second-largest U.S. city failed to properly consult with municipal-employee unions before pushing through the changes in 2012.

Total assets of the funds for the city's firefighters, police officers, teachers, school administrators and civil servants grew to $160.5 billion, the highest ever to end a fiscal year.