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What Are the Stats Telling Us?
By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Mark Twain quoted Benjamin Disraeli in his 1907 autobiography, when he stated "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" as a phrase used to describe the persuasive power of statistics to support weak arguments....
ARPA Update as of March 29, 2024
By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Good morning, and welcome to a new month/quarter. Still feels like winter in the northeast! But there has been a thaw with regard to activity at the PBGC as they implement the...
ARPA Update as of March 22, 2024
By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. "March Madness" is upon us. How's your bracket doing? I still have my champion in the running, but not much more than that. The past week was very quiet with regard to...
Overpayment of SFA to be Refunded
By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. As those who regularly follow the Ryan ALM Inc. blog know, we report each week on the status of the PBGC's effort to implement the ARPA legislation for multiemployer plans. In those...
Corporate Pension Funding Continues to Improve
By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. The Milliman organization does a terrific of providing frequent and very useful updates through their Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index (PFI). They are reporting that the funded status improved by $26 billion...
A Contrarian Approach That is Becoming More Common?
By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. I suspect that some (perhaps) many folks in our industry are becoming a little tired of my constant drum beat requesting a change in how pension plans are managed. I'm sorry if...