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.
Tag: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
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.
Pensions
Senate Parliamentarian Ruling Keeps Pension Bailout Alive
Multiemployer pension reform has been ruled eligible to be included in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.
Pensions
Pension Relief Plan in COVID-19 Stimulus Bill That Passes House
The legislation goes to the Senate, which could vote on the proposal later this week.
Regulation
PBGC Names Nicholas Novak Permanent Inspector General
He had been the agency’s acting inspector general since April.
Pensions
House Includes Pension Reform Plan in COVID-19 Relief Bill
The provision would beef up the PBGC and provide a boost for multiemployer and single-employer plans. But it would also freeze COLAs.
Pensions
Outlook Improves for Multiemployer Reform in 2021, 2022
Democratic control of Congress could help break the deadlock over passing legislation to protect pensions and the PBGC.
Pensions
PBGC Approves Merger to Aid Struggling Multiemployer Plan
The settlement is intended to help protect 50,000 Giant, Safeway employees and retirees in the Washington, D.C., area.
Research
PBGC Pension Programs Continue Divergence
The pension lifeboat’s multiemployer plan is five years from insolvency, while the single-employer plan remains robust.
Pensions
Time Runs Out for Multiemployer Pension Reform in 2020
Senators Grassley and Alexander say it’s too late to include their plan in year-end legislation.
Regulation
Court Rules Pensions Can’t Exist in a State of Limbo
In ‘most unusual case,’ judges back PBGC and find that someone must be held responsible for a pension even if the sponsor is long gone.
Asset Management Culture
Two More Pension Funds Apply to Treasury Department for Benefits Cuts
Arizona Bricklayers’ fund submits its first application, while Michigan Carpenters’ fund applies for the second time.