Asset Allocation
Teamsters’ Plan to Claim Most of Latest PBGC Aid
More than $800 million from Special Financial Assistance Program will help two pension funds covering more than 22,000 participants.
Tag: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Newsmakers
PBGC Approves Bailouts for Five More Multiemployer Plans in May
The agency has now approved more than $6.2 billion in special financial assistance funds to cover nearly 120,000 participants.
Newsmakers
PBGC Approves Over $300 Million in SFA Funds to 3 Pensions
The struggling multiemployer plans cover nearly 2,000 participants.
Newsmakers
PBGC to Provide Nearly $700 Million to 3 Insolvent Multiemployer Plans
Plans covering over 5,550 participants have been approved to receive bailout funds under the American Rescue Plan.
News
New York City-Based Multiemployer Plans Approved for PBGC Bailout
The Local 584 Plan and the Milk Industry Office Employees Pension will receive funds under the Special Financial Assistance Program.
Newsmakers
PBGC Approves $100.5 Million Bailout of New Jersey Pension Plan
Teamsters Local 408 is the 5th plan to be approved under the American Rescue Plan Act’s Special Financial Assistance program.
Newsmakers
PBGC Bails Out Struggling NY Pension With $112.6 Million in Aid
The Local 138 Pension Plan becomes the first multiemployer plan to receive funds under the American Rescue Plan Act.
Regulation
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Delphi Pension Termination Case
The lack of action by the high court ends more than 12 years of litigation after the General Motors unit’s pension plan was terminated.
Newsmakers
Huge Turnaround Swings PBGC Multiemployer Program into the Black
For the first time in two decades, both the multiemployer and single-employer programs have positive net financial positions.
Opinion
Op-Ed: Don’t Leave Money on the Table When Evaluating Pension Risk Strategies
The passage of the American Rescue Plan Act in March has changed the game for CIOs considering an annuity buyout.
Regulation
PBGC Issues Interim Final Rule on Multiemployer Bailout Plan
The agency’s proposal sets a priority system for distributing $94 billion to severely underfunded pension plans.
Pensions
Special Report: Will Pension Risk Transfers Someday Control All DB Plans?
The trend is mounting for corporate sponsors to shunt liabilities to insurers. But some don’t want to do that, and others can’t.
Pensions
Special Report: The Risk Factor in Pension Transfers
Plans often do piecemeal deals, to reduce the chances of everything going down the tubes.
Pensions
Single-Employer Plans Can Lower Target Returns to 4% and 5%
Under the pension relief bill, allocators can aggressively de-risk corporate funds, says Insight Investment.
Pensions
COLA Freeze Removed from Pension Bailout Plan
American Rescue Plan Act amendment from Chuck Schumer removes cost-of-living adjustment freeze.