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What is My Funded Ratio? Who Cares!
The funded ratio of a DB pension plan gets a lot of attention, especially if it is perceived to be weak. But does the funded ratio truly tell you the whole story as to the financial health of a DB...
What Would You Do?
Happy St. Paddy's Day to my Irish friends (I'm 1/2 Irish) and those that would like to be. May the luck of the Irish embrace you today. As many of you know, we are always willing to provide to the...
DB Pension Plan "Absolute Truths" Revisited
This post may be familiar to some of you, as I originally published it in October 2024. Given today's great uncertainty related to geopolitics, markets, and the economy, I thought it relevant to share once again. Please don't hesitate to...
Milliman: Corporate Pension Funding now at 109.4%
Milliman has released the latest monthly report on the Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index (PFI). As a reminder, this index analyzes the 100 largest U.S. corporate pension plans. For February, the PFI funded ratio rose from 109.1% as of January...
New Jersey's Pension System's "High" Investment Return
As a taxpaying resident in New Jersey and a huge supporter of defined benefit plans who has a daughter in the system, I was happy to read that NJ's pension systems generated strong investment returns in fiscal year 2025, reporting...
Milliman: Corporate Pension Funding Soars
Milliman has once again released its monthly Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index (PFI), which analyzes the 100 largest U.S. corporate pension plans, and the news continues to be quite good. Market appreciation of 1.05% during January lifted the market value...
Milliman: Another good month for pension funding
Whether one is referring to public pensions or private DB plans, September was a continuation of the positive momentum experienced for most of 2025. Milliman has reported on both the Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index (PFI), which analyzes the 100...
Corporate Pension Funding - UP!
I was out of the office last week, and as a result I am trying to play catch-up on some of the stories that I think you'd be interested in. Happy to report that Milliman released its monthly Milliman 100...
Milliman: Corporate Pension Funding Up
Milliman released its monthly Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index (PFI), which analyzes the 100 largest U.S. corporate pension plans, and they are reporting that the collective funded ratio has risen to 105.1% as of June 30th from 104.9% at the...
Improved Corporate Pension Funding - Milliman
Milliman released the results of its 2025 Corporate Pension Funding Study (PFS). The study analyzes pension data for the 100 U.S. public companies with the largest defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Unlike the monthly updates provided by Milliman, this study...