Retirement & Benefits

Many companies mitigate the interest rate risk of their cash balance plans with floors using a binary approach. Here’s a better option.

The winner of the 2024 Gold Alexander Hamilton Award in Financial Risk Management is Bristol Myers Squibb. Congratulations to the BMS team!

By being prepared and implementing strategic solutions, employers can mitigate some of the financial pressures that may arise from the IRA, ensuring that their employees and retirees are better protected from the ripple effects of this landmark legislation.

Retirement plans were a hot button issue for union workers, but Boeing says pension plans are "prohibitively expensive."

Boeing union workers, in their seventh week of a strike, are seeking higher wages along with the restoration of the company's pension plan, which has been frozen since 2014.

New research findings raise an important question for employers: Are your retirement plans truly supporting your employees, or are they costing them more than they should?

The projected increase is nearly identical to this year's rate of 10.1%, which represents the highest increase forecasted in 10 years.

The average employer-sponsored premium for U.S. families rose 7% this year—the same amount as last year, according to an annual KFF survey of 2,100 companies.