For the fourth year, the International Foundation and Horizon Actuarial Services have partnered together to release an annual report analyzing key trends in demographics, cash flows and investments for multiemployer… Read more >
February 21, 2017 Defined Benefit Plans, Defined Contribution Plans, Employee Benefits, Multiemployer, Pensions, Retirement 0 Read more >
Benefit plan trustees have been giving increased attention to alternative asset classes. Before investing in these classes, it is important define what alternative investments are, identify the most prevalent types… Read more >
February 2, 2017 Employee Benefits, Investments, Pensions, Retirement 0 Read more >
The U.S. Department of Labor is actively investigating large defined benefit plans to make sure they are searching for and paying missing pension participants who’ve reached their required beginning date…. Read more >
December 19, 2016 Employee Benefits, Pensions, Regulatory 0 Read more >
So . . . Why does a $190 billion, 103-year-old public pension fund especially need to watch its spelling and grammar on member communication materials? Because it represents 896,000 public… Read more >
November 22, 2016 Employee Benefits, Financial Education, Financial Wellness, Pensions, Public Plans, Retirement 0 Read more >
On May 6, 2016, the Treasury Department announced that it—along with the Department of Labor and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation—was rejecting the application the Central States Teamsters filed for… Read more >
May 13, 2016 Employee Benefits, Multiemployer, Pensions, Regulatory, Retirement 0 Read more >
You already know you need to find and pay your lost or missing pension participants who’ve reached their Required Beginning Date (usually the April 1 following age 70½). But what do… Read more >
April 27, 2016 Defined Benefit Plans, Employee Benefits, Pensions, Retirement 4 Read more >
In the 2014 Employee Benefits Survey, respondents were asked about the most appreciated benefit offerings at their organization. Behind health care benefits, respondents stated that their employees most appreciated their… Read more >
January 13, 2016 Defined Benefit Plans, Defined Contribution Plans, Employee Benefits, Financial Education, Pensions, Retirement 0 Read more >
State governments face fiscal challenges that bleed into every aspect of operation. Cost expenditures for state employees’ pension and retirement plans require evaluation and strategy. The International Foundation research team… Read more >
December 22, 2015 Defined Benefit Plans, Defined Contribution Plans, Pensions, Retirement 0 Read more >
A new report, The Multiemployer Retirement Plan Landscape: A Ten-Year Look (2004-2013), reveals by the end of 2013 multiemployer pension plan funding levels had nearly recovered from the 2008 Great… Read more >
December 2, 2015 Defined Benefit Plans, Employee Benefits, Multiemployer, Pensions 0 Read more >
What is black and white and soon to be read all over Canada? I couldn’t help but think of this riddle when the fourth edition of Employee Benefits in Canada… Read more >
November 24, 2015 Canada, Health Care, Pensions, Retirement 0 Read more >