By Zorast Wadia, Alan H. Perry, Charles J. Clark  |  18 April 2018

During 2017, the private single-employer defined benefit plans of the Milliman 100 companies made significant funding improvements.

By Zorast Wadia, Alan H. Perry, Charles J. Clark  |  06 April 2017

The 100 largest corporate defined benefit pension plans finished 2016 with pension assets of $1.395 trillion and projected benefit obligations of $1.718 trillion.

By Alan H. Perry, Charles J. Clark, John W. Ehrhardt, Zorast Wadia  |  07 April 2016

The 100 largest corporate defined benefit pension plans made little progress in 2015, a tumultuous year that buffeted pension plans with volatile markets and interest rate movement.

By Alan H. Perry, John W. Ehrhardt, Zorast Wadia  |  31 March 2015

For pension plans with substantive allocation to fixed income investments, declining interest rates made 2014 a banner year.

By Alan H. Perry, John W. Ehrhardt, Zorast Wadia  |  01 April 2014

For the companies comprising the Milliman Pension Funding Study (PFS), a 7.5% decrease in plan liabilities from higher discount rates and a 9.9% average return on plan assets combined to produce a historic $198.3 billion improvement in the funded status deficit from year-end 2012.