By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. There has been much written during the last week about the current state of the US retirement industry. This follows testimony in Washington DC that highlighted many of the current issues related...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. ESG, short for environmental, social, and governance, are considerations alongside financial investment insights used in investment decision making. ESG considerations have been around for a long time, and in most instances, they...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Milliman has once again provided perspective on the "average" public pension system with the release of the Public Pension Funding Index (PPFI), which analyzes data from the nation’s 100 largest public defined...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. In a country as divided as ours, it is incredibly rare when one sees such unanimity as 83% of Americans believing that all workers should have access to a pension plan. This...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Good morning, and welcome to the last week of February. Wow, this month seems to have flown by. With regard to the PBGC's implementation of the ARPA legislation, activity is picking up....

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. I've been asked to speak to this topic on many occasions. In one such case, the IFEBP conference in October 2017, I returned to New Jersey and penned a post on the...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. The Milliman organization has just released its year-end "results of its Multiemployer Pension Funding Study (MPFS), which analyzes the funded status of all multiemployer defined benefit pension plans in the United States,...