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| Markets Push Pension Funded Status Higher in 2017 |
| Most firms that track DB plan funded status estimated between 1% to 3% improvement for the year.Read more > |
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| Public Pensions Produced Solid Returns in 2017 |
| In 2017, public pensions managed to raise the market value of fund assets above the actuarial value of assets, the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) found in a survey. Furthermore, the one-year, five-year and 20-year investment returns are near or above investment assumptions.Read more > |
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| Verizon Pensioners Still Want to Recoup ERISA Protections |
| In a new conversation with Jack Cohen, Association of BellTel Retirees chairman, he says they are still concerned with trying to recoup at least some of the protections that they had under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and that his association and others warned the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) that risk transfers would harm the insurance system.Read more > |
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| Compliance |
| PBGC Adjusts Penalties for Failure to Provide Information |
| The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is required to adjust these amounts annually for inflation, but the agency says its goal is to encourage compliance, not to penalize plans that inadvertently forget to file information.Read more > |
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| Investing |
| Incorporation of ESG Factors Into Institutional Investor Decisions Leveled Off |
| Adoption rates of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into the investment decision-making process among institutional investors has leveled off, according to the Callan 2017 ESG survey. Callan says this is partly due to multiple years of investor education around ESG coming to fruition.Read more > |
