Wilshire, which collects data on U.S. pensions sponsored by employers in the S&P 500, showed the strongest amount of growth. They said in their analysis that the funded ratio of those plans grew by ...

Turning to participation rates, Vanguard notes that it has two measures, with the most common being the average rate among a group of plans (referred to as the plan-weighted participation rate). In ...

Massachusetts Secure Choice is closer to becoming more than a proposal. Both houses of the Bay State’s legislature on June 30 voted in favor of a measure that includes a provision that would create ...

Both the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) were repealed by the Social Security Fairness Act. This affected Social Security’s costs at a time when the ...

Social Security’s 90th birthday is this year, Walker notes, and remains the “cornerstone of economic security in the United States” and “the backbone of economic security” in our country. Despite that ...

Participant education is an ongoing concern for plan sponsors – including how one can cut through the clutter and engage employees, even for a few minutes, with understanding about their benefits and ...

Participant education is an ongoing concern for plan sponsors – including how one can cut through the clutter and engage employees, even for a few minutes, with understanding about their benefits and ...

The Senate on July 1 passed its version of the budget, formerly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Since the Senate version is different from that passed by the House, it must be approved by the ...

U.S. insurance carriers are accelerating their shift toward retirement income solutions and platform innovation as economic uncertainty grows says Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s (GSAM) in its annual ...

Beyond that, when you look inside the numbers of the Voya survey you see that just 17% of participants considered themselves VERY prepared — and only 27% of plan sponsors characterized their ...

How mentorship strengthens the TPA community by building connections today and developing leaders for tomorrow ...

After intense last-minute negotiations, both houses of Congress approved the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act before their self-imposed July 4 deadline — clearing the measure for President Trump’s ...