Tag: Actuarial issues

May 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Measures of defined benefit (DB) plan liabilities currently used by plan sponsors do not tell...

May 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Board of Administration approved new actuarial policies to...

April 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – MassMutual Retirement Services appointed Steven Mendelsohn as national practice leader for the firm’s defined benefit...

April 15, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Strong global equity market performance and higher liability discount rates worked wonders on the funded...

March 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The first quarter of 2014 saw very light pension rebalancing flows, but liability-driven investing (LDI)...

March 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) voted unanimously not to delay the implementation date of...

March 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index, which tracks the relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities,...

March 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new online pension implementation tool kit has been released by the Governmental Accounting Standards...

March 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The latest release of the Milliman Pension Funding Index, which tracks performance at the largest...

January 31, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A 16% increase in 2014 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) premiums pushed Mercer’s Pension Buyout...

January 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The cost of purchasing pension annuities from an insurer increased to 108.5% of liabilities during...

January 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The pension funded status of the U.S.’s largest corporations jumped by 16 percentage points in...

December 10, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) Index increased fractionally during November.

November 19, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new research paper shows the impact of using a mark-to-market accounting method for valuing...

November 18, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The state pension fund in Colorado lowered its long-term investment return expectations from 8% to...

October 23, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – USI Consulting Group has hired Heidi Kruck as a senior actuarial consultant in its Defined...

August 14, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Pension plans in the U.S. continue to lower assumptions, according to an analysis from PwC.

June 28, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has published an Implementation Guide for new financial reporting...

June 13, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) affirmed its proposal to indefinitely defer certain disclosures for...

June 11, 2013 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employee benefits consulting firm Cammack LaRhette hired Arthur Scalise as managing actuary.