Pension Research Council News

Professor Olivia S. Mitchell gave the keynote speech at the 2nd CEAR-RSI Household Finance Workshop in Montreal, on ‘Making Your Money Last a Lifetime.’ Read More

Fewer companies offer defined benefit pension plans today than in the early 1980s, so GE’s announced pension buyout is part of a larger trend, says Wharton Prof. Olivia S. Mitchell here.     Image courtesy of Chuck Miller. Read More

The Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that Prudential Financial has rejoined the Council as an Associate of the Council for 2020. Prudential Financial first joined the PRC as an Institutional Member in 1995. Read More

Are money-back guaranteed retirement accounts a good deal? Not now, explains Wharton’s Olivia S. Mitchell to MarketWatch here, citing her recent study with Vanya Horneff, Daniel Liebler, and Raimond Maurer (posted here). Read More

The Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that Almanac Realty Investors has rejoined the Council as an Associate of the Council for 2020. Almanac first joined the PRC in 2018. Read More

The Pension Research Council at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce that the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) has rejoined the Council as an Associate of the Council for 2020. The IFEBP first joined the PRC in 2006 as an Institutional Member. Read More