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Tag: pension funding

How employers short changed workers on their pensions

February 2, 2014 rdquinn

2014 Flash back to 2008-2009; the stock market is crashing and interest rates are dropping. Declining stocks lower the funded status for defined benefit pension

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Unintended consequences may put defined benefit pensions in further jeopardy

December 10, 2013 rdquinn

2013 TOO LATE, IT APPEARS THESE PREMIUM INCREASES ARE PART OF THE BUDGET DEAL TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY Remember those famous words, if you like

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Funding pension (and Social Security) promises when the promise is too generous

January 11, 2013 rdquinn

Consider this item about Illinois public pensions contained in a Wall Street Journal article January 8th. The story is about trying to deal with the

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Underfunding state employee pensions … can you afford to do otherwise?

February 25, 2012 rdquinn

This from Bloomberg.com Christie’s $29.7 billion budget for fiscal 2012 funds only 14 percent of the pension payment recommended by actuaries, even after his benefit

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