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Holly Corporation Selects the Principal Financial Group for Defined Contribution Plan
DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Principal Financial Group([R]), one of the nation's 401k leaders1, has been selected by a major petroleum refiner and marketer as its defined contribution plan service provider, effective January 1, 2008.
Tags: defined contribution plan, Principal Financial Group
Research articles 2008-05-07
IRS looking for mistakes in defined contribution plans, nonexempt charitable trusts.(ENFORCEMENT)
IRS is looking for mistakes in defined contribution plans. IRS is looking for mistakes in defined contribution plans.
Tags: defined contribution plan, Internal Revenue Service
Research articles 2008-02-22
Strategists: Don't cook the DB goose; 'Bad defined benefit plan is better than a good DC plan'.(News)(defined contribution plan)(Barclays Global Investors - M. Barton Waring)(Ford Foundation - Laurence Siegel)
Byline: Vince Calio A defined contribution plan shouldn't be used for retirement income, two leading investment strategists say. M. Barton Waring, managing director of client strategy at Barclays Global Investors, San Francisco, and Laurence Sie Byline: Vince Calio ...
Tags: Barclays Plc., benefit, benefit plan, defined contribution plan, Ford Motor Co., pension plan
Research articles 2006-06-26
Defined contribution: Congress likely to get involved in enrollment, deferral issues.
Byline: Phyllis Feinberg MIAMI - The use of automatic enrollment and automatic deferral increases in defined contribution plans might be voted into law by Congress next year. That was one of the predictions of James M. Delaplane Jr., partner, b ...
Tags: defined contribution plan, enrollment, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2005-03-07
The Principal Financial Group Unveils Hire Through Retire Education Program for Combined Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans; New Tools Respond to Increasing Need for Retirement Planning Education
DES MOINES, Iowa -- American workers who have access to both a defined benefit DB and defined contribution DC plan at the workplace have twice the retirement savings power but for many, twice the confusion and complexity. To help plan sponsors get more value out of the retirement plan investment...
Tags: defined contribution plan, Principal Financial Group
Research articles 2005-05-02
Shift to DB, hybrids: U.K. sponsors move away from DC plans.(News)
Byline: Beatrix Payne LONDON - The defined contribution tide has turned. U.K. plan sponsors are beginning to replace their defined contribution plans with defined benefit plans or hybrids, consultants say. In the past year, three U.K. plan sp ...
Tags: Barclays Plc., benefit, benefit plan, defined contribution plan, staff
Research articles 2004-08-23
WITHDRAWALS ARE SUSPECT: Fed data show first dip in defined contribution assets.(United States Federal Reserve Board)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
WASHINGTON - After surging for more than a decade, defined contribution plan assets fell last year for the first time. According to the latest data from the Federal Reserve Board, it estimates defined contribution plan assets dropped to $2.52 trill WASHINGTON - After surging...
Tags: asset, defined contribution plan, Federal Reserve Board
Research articles 2001-03-19
MORE ATTENTION: Retirement fund survey shows surprising result; Defined contribution plans fare better when employer also offers a defined benefit plan.(Brief Article)
NEW YORK - Plan sponsors that offer both defined benefit and defined contribution plans pay more attention to the investment options in both plans than companies with only a defined contribution plan, according to Mercer's 2001 Survey on Employee Sav NEW YORK - Plan sponsors that...
Tags: benefit, benefit plan, defined contribution plan, Mercer, survey
Research articles 2001-10-15
New PwC design combines features of DB, DC worlds.(News)(PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)
Byline: Jerry Geisel A new retirement plan design may reduce the problems associated with offering defined benefit plans or exclusively offering defined contribution plans. The design, developed by the human resources services unit of Pricewate Byline: Jerry Geisel ...
Tags: benefit, benefit plan, defined contribution plan, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting
Research articles 2006-07-10
Canada seeing shift to DC pension plans.(International)
Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Many Canadian employers are moving from defined benefit pension plans to defined contribution plans as they try to hold down plan costs. Last month, Montreal-based Air Canada's new equity investor, Trinity Time Investment Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ ...
Tags: Air Canada, benefit, benefit plan, Canadian company, company, defined contribution plan, pension plan
Research articles 2004-03-01
Goosing participation: DC program guarantees 15% uptick.(Frontlines)(Brief Article)
Byline: Jenna Gottlieb Transamerica Retirement Services rolled out a new program that guarantees a 15% increase in defined contribution plan participation. The Los Angeles-based company's Plus 15 Participation Guarantee offers to refund administ Byline: Jenna Gottlieb Transamerica Retirement...
Tags: defined contribution plan, Transamerica Corp.
Research articles 2005-10-03
HITTING HALF: FLEXIBILITY LEADS MANY EMPLOYERS AROUND WORLD TO ADOPT DC PLANS.(defined contribution pension plans)
Defined contribution plans accounted for half of all employer-sponsored retirement arrangements in 14 countries last year, a new survey by William M. Mercer Cos. Inc., New York, shows. In the United States, 60% of all employer-sponsored retirement Defined contribution plans accounted for half...
Tags: contribution, defined contribution plan, Lamb, Mercer, survey
Research articles 1999-05-17
Name a pension panel.(Congress considers legislation on defined contribution plans)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
The 401k retirement saving plan is facing a crisis - in fact, most defined contribution plans are. That may sound overly dramatic, but remember, the Chinese ideogram for crisis is made up of two symbols: The symbol for danger, and the symbol for ...
Tags: 401(k) plan, benefit, benefit plan, defined contribution plan, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2002-01-21
Dawning of the DC plan age.(defined contribution)
Byline: Nancy K. Webman When I think about pension reform, I am reminded of the song from the musical "Hair'' about the dawning of the age of Aquarius. Even though the need for reform was driven by defined benefit plan issues,...
Tags: defined contribution plan, enrollment, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Labor
Research articles 2006-10-02
Shift To Defined Contribution Plans Is Global.
The movement away from defined benefit retirement plans toward defined contribution plans is not just happening in the U.S. According to a new report, it is a global phenomenon. William M. Mercer, a New York-based global consulting firm, recently The movement away...
Tags: benefit, defined contribution plan, Mercer
Research articles 1999-04-19
RULES CHANGE: IRS simplifies mergers of DC plans, allows transfers.(defined contribution plan mergers)(Brief Article)
WASHINGTON -- The IRS issued new regulations that simplify defined contribution plan mergers, allow transfers of money between plans and enable service providers to create entirely paperless, Internet-based plans. The rules were effective Sept. 6. WASHINGTON -- The IRS issued new regulations that...
Tags: annuity, defined contribution plan, Internal Revenue Service, merger
Research articles 2000-09-18
Bankruptcy reorganization: Air Canada union employees not embracing DC plan switch.(World News)
Byline: Gloria Gonzalez MONTREAL - Air Canada Inc.'s new equity investor hopes financial incentives will encourage airline employees to switch to a new defined contribution plan from a defined benefit pension plan. Hong Kong-based Trinity Time I Byline: Gloria Gonzalez ...
Tags: Air Canada, bankruptcy, contribution, defined contribution plan
Research articles 2004-03-22
SEC probe into 401(k) fees embroils DC plan sponsors
Although the dust is still swirling in the Securities and Exchange Commission's probe into mutual fund companies' defined contribution plan payment practices, industry observers are predicting major changes for DC plans and their sponsors. Although the dust is still swirling in the Securities and Exchange Commission's probe into mutual...
Tags: 401(k) plan, defined contribution plan, SEC
Research articles 2004-09-15
Politics: Schwarzenegger taking aim at California public DB plans.(defined benefit plans)(Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's pension management policy)
Byline: Cecily O'Connor and Arleen Jacobius SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to force all new public employees to join defined contribution plans would mark the beginning of a long and slow death for the state's pu Byline: Cecily O'Connor and...
Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, asset, benefit, benefit plan, CalPERS, defined contribution plan
Research articles 2005-01-10
BT dials up new pension plan.
LONDON-One of the United Kingdom's largest employers is closing its defined benefit pension plan and offering a defined contribution plan. London-based BT P.L.C. announced this month that new employees of the telecommunications giant will no longe LONDON-One of the United Kingdom's largest employers...
Tags: benefit, British Telecommunications, contribution, defined contribution plan, Mercer, pension plan
Research articles 2001-04-30
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