Maryland Court of Appeals Holds Actuaries Liable
July 22, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Court of Appeals of Maryland has held the former actuary firm...
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PwC Finds Drop in Pension Discount Rates, Projected Returns
July 11, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new report finds a drop in pension and OPEB discount rates,...
Interest Rate Rise Lifts Milliman 100 Pension Funding Status in June
July 8, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of the 100 largest corporate defined benefit pension plans...
GASB Makes Pension Reporting Proposals
July 8, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has issued two Exposure Drafts proposing...
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Public Pension McCarthyism
June 30, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the early 1950s the junior senator from Wisconsin made quite a name for himself by...
Actuaries Botch CT Town’s OPEB Calculations
June 9, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Westport, Connecticut's obligations for retired employee benefits could be several million dollars higher than previously...
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Pru Completes Nation’s First Pension Buy-In
May 26, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Prudential Retirement says it has completed what it termed the nation’s first...
Falling Interest Rates Widen Pension Funding Gap in April
May 11, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A $31 billion increase in liabilities offset a $19 billion increase in...
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Public Employee Retirement Plans and the Myth of the Risk-Free Rate
May 2, 2011 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For a few years now, with increasing intensity over the past couple of years, there...
Pension Funding Gaps Narrow Worldwide: Aon Hewitt
January 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - According to a new analysis from Aon Hewitt, global pension funding levels ended the year...
Pittsburgh Pressing to Prevent Pension Pick-Up
December 31, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Putting Pittsburgh’s pension problems to bed is proving to be complicated.
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Fallacies in the Public Retirement Arena
December 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The following was written in response to an article published here on December 15 by...
DB Discount Rate Reductions May Be in Order for 2010
December 17, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The range of discount rates being used by defined benefit plan sponsors continues to widen...
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Academic and Think Tank Hypocrisy In the Public Retirement Arena
December 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unless you have been on a deserted island sans BlackBerry or iPhone, you have undoubtedly...
CalPERS Sets New Asset Allocation Strategy
December 14, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The nation’s largest public pension plan has adopted a new asset allocation...
CalSTRS Lowers Actuarial Assumptions
December 3, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The nation’s second-largest public pension plan has lowered the return assumptions for...
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Rendell Signs Pension Reform Bill
November 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed 22 bills into law this week, including...
IASB, FASB Reach Tentative Agreements on IAS 19
November 24, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board...
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Pension Applications (Pen-Apps) Forms New Consulting Firm
October 15, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An independent pension actuarial consulting firm specializing in asset liability modeling (ALM), plan design and...
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PSNC Talking Points
August 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Even the most diligent registrant at the recent PLANSPONSOR National Conference (PSNC)...