Defined Contribution

Every law needs a non-renewable sunset provision. ERISA shows us why.

Great-West Financial has completed its acquisition of J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services large-market recordkeeping business.

Although one of the goals of ERISA was to provide plan participants with a window into how their money is being spent, the new Short Form 5500 has had the opposite effect.

It's not perfect but ERISA gave us a greater degree of predictability and equity than had existed before.

ERISA itself cannot take all the blame for the decrease in DB coverage, but it certainly should share some of it.

A fund managed by EII Capital Management is about to be removed from the line-up at two Boston University retirement plans.