Pension News

Yesterday I joined friends from Social Security Works, OWL - The Voice of Midlife and Older Women, Social Security Matters, the Alliance for Retired Americans, the Economic Policy Institute, and others outside of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center as Pete Peterson (you know him, he’s the one who is trying to scare everyone into thinking that Social Security is on its last legs - don’t worry, it isn’t) hosted a closed-door meeting of millionaires and billionaires, at which cutting Social Security was a primary point of discussion.  (more…)

Here’s some of the latest news from the world of pensions: (more…)

As someone who monitors the news on a daily basis, I often come across stories about retirement systems in other countries. Below are just a few of the recent articles that I thought were interesting. What can we learn from retirement income policies in other countries? (more…)

Today Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced that they were committed to working toward a new universal pension system to ensure that all Americans - and particularly their six children - would be able to retire with dignity. (more…)

In December 2009, Visteon Corp. announced that it was going to terminate its pension plans, which cover some 21,000 workers and retirees, as part of the company’s overall bankruptcy and reorganization effort.  (more…)