Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, economics, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) and has ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and corporate accounting with ...

Deciding whether to take a lump sum or accept guaranteed monthly payments with a pension is an age-old retirement question.

Traditional pensions are a workplace benefit and provide lifetime income to qualified workers. Most private employers have ...

If a defined benefit plan is terminated with insufficient funds to pay all promised benefits, the PBGC has authority to assume trusteeship of the plan and to begin to pay pension benefits up to the ...

More public pension plans are returning to defining emerging money manager firms as those owned by women, minorities or people with disabilities. As a result, the use of the term to describe any small ...

Chris Curry, Pensions Policy Institute It seems like much of the pensions world has spent the last 12 months engaging with ...

If you have a defined benefit pension with your company, it may be insured by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which covers certain pension plans. Along with pension payments, the PBGC ...

The setup sounds almost too clean. A 38-year-old Montana teacher with 8 years of service has exactly $50,000 in a rollover IRA, which happens to be the exact amount needed to purchase 5 years of ...

Abstract: Policymakers at every level of government are confronting the cost of fringe benefits for public-sector workers. The difficulty of placing an economic value on public employees’ pensions, ...