Defined Benefits

Many industry groups are up in arms about proposed PBGC regulation changes.

MetLifes U.S. Pension Risk Behavior Index this year has reached the highest value it has ever recorded.

A recent CBO report on tax expenditures, it says, doesn't consider the impact of tax incentives on employer-based retirement plans.

Pension experts, an asset manager, and a national clearinghouse for state governments fielded questions Wednesday from a legislative panel scrutinizing Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's pension-overhaul plan, providing an abundance of information but no clear direction on how to proceed barely a month before the Legislature is expected to take its...

The estimated buyout cost for retirees in a work pension plan was 109 percent of the accounting liability in April, according to the Mercer US Pension Buyout Index.

Legislation would provide relief to nonprofit organizations like Girl Scouts of the USA, which now have higher pension funding rules than taxable, for-profit companies.