It would be really nice to read stories about Washington DC politicians who truly understand what is happening to every day Americans, whether they are currently being impacted by the government shutdown or just life in general. However, we get...

Forbes published an article by Elizabeth Bauer on December 6, 2018, titled, "Could The Butch Lewis Act Solve The Multiemployer Solvency Crisis? The author concludes that despite the fact that "the Butch Lewis Act (BLA) is projected to have an...

The WSJ recently published an article highlighting a Federal Reserve research study suggesting that student loans have negatively impacted younger Americans in their ability to buy homes. They estimate that nearly 400,000 young Americans were impacted. Was a research paper...

H.R.397 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) is seeking to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create a Pension Rehabilitation Trust Fund, to establish a Pension Rehabilitation Administration within the Department of the Treasury to make loans to multiemployer defined...

It is well documented that the financial impact on the 800,000 government workers and the roughly 4 million contractors will be tangible especially for the contractors who are not likely to see any compensation for the loss of business revenue....

A recent article in FreightWaves discusses the filing of legislation by Congressman Richard Neal (D, MA). The legislation know as the Rehabilitation of Multiemployer Pensions Act was first filed by Congressman Neal in 2017, but didn't get the necessary support...

We are pleased to provide you with the Ryan ALM Fourth Quarter newsletter. Each quarter Ron Ryan and his team provide plan sponsors an important view on how a generic liability stream, priced at market, would have performed relative to...

Oh, my! I'm attending the Opal Public Funds Summit in Scottsdale this week. Opal produces this critical forum twice per year at which public fund plan sponsors, consultants, actuaries, and invesment managers gather to discuss the state of the U.S....

The fourth quarter provided a tremendous amount of pain for Pension America. The feared double whammy occurred in which interest rates fell, increasing the present value of a plan's liabilities, while assets simultaneously fell, too. The combination impacted plan funded...

The following was found on the U.S. Department of the Treasury's website: "On December 16, 2014, the Kline-Miller Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (MPRA) was enacted into law. In MPRA, Congress established a new process for multiemployer pension plans...