Defined Benefits

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.

The amendment would restrict PBGCs enforcement of the controversial 4062(e) regulation.

The gains include an unanticipated $6.1 billion, according to the state Treasury Department.