Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Fixing troubled, multiemployer union pensions won’t be easy.

If you forgot about a pension benefit from a former employer, the PBGC could be looking for you.

The Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. raised the maximum amount of a pension it will guarantee. Good news for those with old-fashioned defined benefit pensions.

Hurray for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the federal pension insurance agency that protects consumers from losing their corporate pensions. The PBGC  isn’t rolling over and accepting bankrupt American Airline’s move to dump its pension obligations on the PBGC. Instead, the PBGC filed liens today against American Airlines after the airline failed to make all