The Retirement Plan Blog

Back in 2008, I blogged about The Funded Status of Public Employee Pension Plans, Out of Sight, Out of Mind. Not any more. In the post-2008 New Economy, there’s been a lot of media attention be...

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That’s Bloc Party, a British indie rock block pictured above. And If it can be broken then it can be fixed is the opening line from Pioneers, one of the tracks on Silent Alarm, their 2005 debut...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/wall-street-if-it-can-be-broke-then-it-can-be-fixed/

  If you’ve been around retirement plans for any length time, you’ll know that the acronym QDRO (one of many in the benefit business) stands for Qualified Domestic Relations Order. It’s a ...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/qdros-the-view-from-30000-feet/

Every once in a while I’ll start to wander off into “Pensionspeak” when I’m talking to a client. And when I do, I’ll catch myself by remembering what one of our important business partn...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/i-asked-you-what-time-it-was-not-how-to-make-a-watch/

We welcome a new blog to the employee benefit blogging community. It’s the Business of Benefits, the focus of which is issues facing insurance companies, financial service providers, and p...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/giller-and-calhoun-launch-new-blog-the-business-of-benefits/

With a new Administration and a new Congress about to take over, we’re going to start to see the think tanks and not-for-profit organizations issuing research and recommendations regarding ...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/what-americans-want-from-a-retirement-plan/

That’s the title of Sergio Leoni’s 1966 movie considered the greatest of the Italian spaghetti westerns. We know it in this country, of course, as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. The mov...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/defined-benefit-pension-plans/il-buono-il-brutto-il-cattivo-the-2008-retirement-plan-year-in-review/

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A Risk Management Tool for Fiduciaries in A New Retirement Plan Environment Updated for the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PDF) Introduction My last post was a year-end ERISA fidelity bond rem...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/401k-plans/december-2008-client-briefing-faqs-on-fiduciary-liability-insurance/

See full-size image. While media and investor attention has been totally focused on the market meltdown, the funded status – or lack thereof, of public employee pension plans has been escaping ...

https://www.retirementplanblog.com/public-employee-plans/out-of-sight-out-of-mind-the-funded-status-of-public-employee-pension-plans/