Update: Mercer releases full report of S&P 500 benchmarking survey on retirement programs

Retirement plan sponsors can find a wealth of benchmarking data on S&P 500 companies in a new Mercer report, How does your retirement program stack up? Expanding on our earlier highlights paper, this full report gives details on the funded status, funding, investments, and designs of different retirement programs, from defined benefit and defined contribution plans to retiree medical and life insurance plans. Along with providing industry breakdowns, the analysis examines recent changes, such as which sectors were most or least affected by the balance-sheet recognition provisions of FAS 158.  (Update, 10 Oct 2007, 36 pages)

• Full report (PDF)
• Highlights report (PDF)
• Mercer website with survey findings and reports

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