Plan termination

To help counter the growing retirement crisis for today's workers, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. has recently begun to spotlight its often-unnoticed mission "to encourage and preserve retirement plans of U.S. companies."

The Pension Counseling and Information Projects are mentioned in this Morningstar column, which offers advice on protecting your pension benefits.

Bucking the 401(k) trend, one union moves to a new type of defined-benefit plan in which employers and employees share the risk.

There is something about pensions that makes their sponsors just want to say no. For months we have been reading about cities and states failing to pay what is due into employee pension funds. Now corporate America is getting into the act.