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What’s Next in Pension Risk?
Pension Risk Management is a Trend in Full Swing In early 2008, pension risk management was an agenda item for many private pension plan sponsors. The financial crisis and the roughly 30% decline in...
View ArticleHEK Blog Weekly Update 10/30/2013
The weekly updates for 10/30/2013 includes a listing of the new pieces of intellectual capital that HEK released the prior week, upcoming events, commentary on market experience over the prior week,...
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Potential Increases to PBGC Premiums
[Update: The legislation described in the blog entry below was signed into law on December 26, 2013.] On December 10, 2013, a House and Senate conference committee announced a budget agreement which...
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Strategic Implications of PBGC Premium Increases
On December 26, 2013, The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, known as The BBA, was into law. The BBA includes significant provisions relevant to retirement policy including increases in the flat-rate and...
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Are We Really Living Longer?
As a company that employs about 1,500 actuaries worldwide, we are accustomed to people asking us some variation of “so can you tell me how long I’m going to live?” The truth of our job is that changes...
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Why are we De-risking the Pension Fund?
With the start of the new year, many single-employer pension plan sponsors may be rethinking their pension risk management strategies. Improved funded ratios have led to pension de-risking in the...
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Five Trends to Watch in Public Pension Fund Governance
The investments of public pension fund assets are handled by entities with a variety of governance structures. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) the U.S, has over 3,400 public...
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Lump-Sum Windows: A Strategy to De-Risk Pension Plans
Providing a guaranteed retirement benefit to employees through a defined benefit pension plan can be financially risky for employers. As investments change in value, interest rates fluctuate, new...
View ArticlePension Funding Reform Legislation
On July 31, 2014 the House and Senate passed a bill including pension funding reform for private sector plans, which has been sent to the President to sign. The changes in this bill potentially reduce...
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