Defined Benefits

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a trio of cases from religious-affiliated, nonprofit health care systems that are seeking exemptions from ERISA for their pension plans.

Do you deal with pension plans? A new brief from Willis Towers Watson details actions defined benefit plan sponsors might consider for 2017.

EBRI says that the Census Bureau's redesigned questionnaire on retirement plan participation has led to misleading data being published about people's participation in pension and retirement plans.

Should public pension funds invest in socially responsible investments? Maybe not, says a brief from the Center for Retirement Research.

The board of the California Public Employees Retirement System voted to cut some retirement benefits of people who worked for a former sawmill town that quit the program. It may be the first time the largest U.S. public pension has taken such a step.

In 2016, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation provided $113 million in financial help to 65 insolvent multiemployer plans, an increase from 2015 -- but its deficit grew as well.