Packaging company Sonoco’s board of directors has approved a plan to terminate the Sonoco US Pension Plan for Inactive Participants, effective Sept. 30.
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System just missed its target rate for annual investment returns, recording 6.8 percent for the fiscal year ending June 30.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to review the Eighth Circuit’s decision in Thole v. US Bank, in which the Eighth Circuit held that participants in an overfunded defined benefit pension plan lack standing to sue for fiduciary breaches under ERISA. The Supreme Court’s decision in this case—the third ERISA case accepted by the court this term—could have significant implications for plan sponsors and plan fiduciaries.