Defined Benefits

The teachers union is unable to divest from firearms industry stocks, or any others in their portfolio, on its own.

A state pension plan for Florida teachers held shares in American Outdoor Brands, which manufactured the gun used in the Feb. 14 school attack.

Florida teachers may be surprised to learn theyve been helping fund the firearms industryincluding American Outdoor Brands, which made the gun used in the recent mass shooting.

Pilots at American and Delta are studying ways to reconstitute or replace retirement plans that were scrapped or frozen during the airlines past financial struggles.

MetLife's failure to keep track of what the company now says is 2 percent of its pension clients, or about 13,500 individuals alarms some state and federal officials.

This week, Rep. Phil Roe, R-TN, and Rep. Donald Norcross, D-NJ, introduced the Give Retirement Options to Workers Act, which would facilitate the adoption of composite plans -- but not all unions and retirement advocates are on board with such plans.