For the first year following insolvency, assuming current law, CRFB estimates that inaction would lead to a $16,500 nominal benefit cut for a typical dual-income couple who retired at the time of ...

The United States could benefit from a new retirement system model featuring a “hybrid” system consisting of the best elements from DC and DB plans, TIAA Institute researchers suggest after studying ...

A new academic paper claims to have a solution to the problem of low-income retirement savings—oh, and they’d like you to pay for it. A new academic paper claims to have a solution to the problem of ...

Dallas Salisbury, President Emeritus and Retired CEO of Employee Benefit Research Institute, argued that although members on Capitol Hill were critical to the passing of ERISA, it would not have ...

Participation in retirement plans continues to grow, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) indicates in its most recent report. The increase in participation is not dramatic. But while the growth ...

Retirement income appears to be at the center in a new study that evaluates viewpoints on key retirement and investment trends from 35 leading consultant and advisory firms.

“From beginning to end, ERISA was a bipartisan effort,” said Phyllis Borzi, former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, at the recent ERISA 50th Anniversary Symposium in Washington D.C ...

The 2025 limits will reflect increases in the CPI-U from the third quarter of 2023 to the third quarter of 2024. The figures cannot be finalized until after September CPI-U values are published in ...

Help employees put plans in place. In 2023 research, Nationwide found that a strong majority of employees who are close to retirement – 88% – told them that they felt “more in control” of their ...

The index has been published for a bit over a decade now, and the U.S. winds up in the lower-middle grouping—Biggs comments that “this index should be treated with caution because it is not a measure ...

After a life-altering car crash, the Blue Benefits Consulting president reflects on the change and resilience she’s experienced over the past year.

By several measures, pension risk transfer costs have been down for the past several months, but the overall trend concerning PRTs still is up in the longer term, at least for now. Pension risk ...