Retirement & Benefits

Thanks to higher interest rates and higher stock prices, plan funded status improved dramatically in 2013although it's still below 100 percent.

Bipartisan budget deal includes another substantial PBGC premium increase; business groups contend it would encourage more companies to exit pension plans.

As more companies prepare to offload some of the risk in their pension plans, an advisory group wants the Labor Department to issue new guidance.

BlackRock CEO says the only way for most pension plans to meet their obligations is to invest more in equities.

Unusual fund management involved money transfers from city pension to employee savings plan to make guaranteed interest paymentsand more in flush years.

Improvement in the U.S. mortality rate lags those of its peers.