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30 April 2025 - by Zorast Wadia, Alan Perry, Ryan Cook
The funded percentage of the 100 largest corporate pension plans entered surplus territory in 2024, fueled by higher discount rates.
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24 April 2024 - by Zorast Wadia, Alan Perry
Milliman's annual Corporate Pension Funding Study dives into details of the top 100 plans, whose funded ratio decreased slightly during FY2023 to 98.5% from 99.4% at the end of FY2022.
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20 April 2023 - by Zorast Wadia, Alan Perry, Richard J. Bottelli Jr.
Milliman's annual Corporate Pension Funding Study dives into details of the top 100 plans, whose funded ratio increased to 99.3% in 2022, up 300 basis points.
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28 April 2022 - by Zorast Wadia, Alan Perry, Charles J. Clark
The year-end 2021 funded ratio for the Milliman 100 companies settled at 96.3%, a large improvement from 2020’s funded ratio of 88.1%.
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07 April 2021 - by Zorast Wadia, Alan Perry, Charles J. Clark
The largest DB plans improve funded ratio to 88.4% in 2020, up from 87.5% a year earlier.
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28 April 2020 - by Zorast Wadia, Alan Perry, Charles J. Clark
Despite a drop of 94 basis points in discount rates, the private single-employer defined benefit plans of the Milliman 100 companies continued to make funding progress in 2019 due to their stellar investment returns of 17.3%.
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16 April 2019 - by Charles J. Clark, Alan Perry, Zorast Wadia
Despite investment losses of 2.8%-- the worst asset performance since 2008—the private single-employer defined benefit plans of the Milliman 100 companies continued to make funding improvements in 2018.
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18 April 2018 - by Charles J. Clark, Alan Perry, Zorast Wadia
During 2017, the private single-employer defined benefit plans of the Milliman 100 companies made significant funding improvements.
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06 April 2017 - by Charles J. Clark, Alan Perry, Zorast Wadia
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.
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07 April 2016 - by Charles J. Clark, John W. Ehrhardt, Alan Perry, Zorast Wadia
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.
