retirement

Divorced feds, vets must now change beneficiaries manually – Va. court

March 21, 2012 15:55

Divorced federal employees, retirees, servicemembers, and veterans need to check their beneficiary designations in the wake of a recently overturned Virginia law. The Virginia Supreme Court has overturned as unconstitutional a long-standing Virginia law that automatically changed beneficiary...

Divorced feds, vets must now change beneficiaries manually – Va. court

March 21, 2012 15:55

Divorced federal employees, retirees, servicemembers, and veterans need to check their beneficiary designations in the wake of a recently overturned Virginia law. The Virginia Supreme Court has overturned as unconstitutional a long-standing Virginia law that automatically changed beneficiary...

Strength at the Broken Places

Eliot Wagonheim
March 20, 2012 12:00

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” So wrote Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. I think businesses are like that, too. Scan down the membership list of your trade association or take a moment to look at the businesses passing...

Public Pension Reform is Seen as Urgent

Susan Mangiero
March 19, 2012 05:02

According to "State Pension Reform, 2009-2011" by Ron Snell (National Conference of State Legislatures, March 2012), all but seven states have made "major changes" in order to lower pension fund obligations. Increasing employee contributions, reducing employer contributions...

'Good' Vibrations

March 18, 2012 22:35

Last week the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) and Mathew Greenwald & Associates, Inc., unveiled the 22nd annual Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS). Among the things we have learned after doing this survey for more than two decades: People’s confidence about retirement frequently seems...