Retirement Benefits
Today's employers face a host of challenges when managing retirement plans: volatile securities markets, 76 million baby boomers nearing retirement age, longer life spans, and shifting workforce characteristics, among others. In such an environment, you need sophisticated analytical tools to create and maintain retirement plans that work.
Sibson Consulting provides clients with the highest level of expertise to cope with these emerging developments through the strategic design, funding, and monitoring of pension and related deferred-compensation plans.
Leaders in Retirement Plan Consulting
Sibson Consulting and its parent, The Segal Company, have been helping employers with their retirement plans for over half a century. We pioneered the practice of designing retirement plans to meet the special needs of employees at distinct career stages. We have also been a leader in crafting hybrid defined benefit pensions (such as pension equity plans and floor-offset arrangements) to address the unique financial circumstances of our clients. Our retirement plan experts serve on advisory committees to federal agencies and private regulatory bodies, giving them critical insights into policy and compliance issues and potential changes.
Retirement services we provide include:
- Investment Management
- Our SEC-registered investment consulting affiliate, Segal Advisors, Inc. provides investment consulting services to more than 240 multiemployer, public and corporate retirement plans.
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation
- Sibson’s asset liability modeling (ALM) tool can be used to make sound decisions regarding plan assets and liabilities.
- Actuarial Services
- Sibson’s actuarial services help employers forecast plan funding requirements, identify available options, and explore alternatives for plan funding, measure assumptions, and highlight changes and trends.
- Plan Design
- Today’s difficult economy and volatile financial markets demand that employers plan carefully to ensure that the design of their retirement income programs will meet their goals and employees’ needs over the long term.
- Plan Governance
- Benefit plan sponsors and administrators need to keep administration procedures up to date in order to comply with regulations.
