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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Actuarial - funding of pensions Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Opinion] Wall Street Journal and Credit Suisse 'Union Pension Bomb' Is Long on Drama, Short on Insight (PDF) Kansas House and Senate Agree on Changes to State Employees Pension Plan Florida Agency Says Legislators Should Consider Increase in Required Employee Contributions to Pension Fund Can Ford's Lump-Sum Buyout Technique Work for Other Pension Plan Sponsors? Houston Sues Firefighters Pension Board to Open Its Books Auditor: San Diego Pension Initiative Overstates Savings Considerations in Preparing Disclosure in Official Statements on a Government Bond Issuer's Pension Funding Obligations (PDF) Is Stock Market Recovery Providing Light at the End of the Tunnel for State and Local Pensions? [Opinion] PBGC: Protector or Predator? CalPERS Ignores Governor Brown, Rejects Immediate Application of Lowered Earnings Assumption PBGC Sues to Take Over Pension Plans of Dewey & LeBoeuf CalPERS Begins Applying Lower Earnings Assumption for Country's Largest Pension Plan Spring 2012 Report of Results from the Segal Survey of Calendar Year Multiemployer Pension Plans' 2012 Zone Status Longtime Chief of Colorado State Pension Plans Resigns, Calls 401(k) Savings Model a 'Failure' At April Meeting, GASB Simplifies Accounting for State Retirement System Liabilities (PDF) [Opinion] Text of Letter to Congress by American Benefits Council and Others, Urging DB Funding Interest Rate Stabilization (PDF) 401(k) Option Still a Sore Point in Kansas Public Employees Retirement System Talks Employer Agrees to Restore $1.3 Million to Employee Retirement Plan Drastic Ohio Public Pension Overhaul Biggest in State History Providence Pension Reforms Will Save $19 Million Over the Next Year [Guidance Overview] Foreign Parent Company Was Properly Joined in PBGC Suit Against U.S. Subsidiary's Pension Plan [Opinion] Text of Comments by ASPPA on Use of 401(k) Plan Forfeitures as Safe Harbor Contributions Arizona Public Workers to Be Reimbursed for Increased Pension Contributions Chicago Mayor Proposes Freeze in Pension Cost-of-Living-Adjustments, Wants to Raise Retirement Age A False Objection When Public Employers Consider a Switch from DB Plan to DC Plan: 'GASB Won't Let Me' (PDF) Buyout Offer is Risky Gamble for Ford's Pension Plan Pension Funding Index, April 2012 (PDF) California Pension Nightmare Worsens: Thousands More Are Joining '$100,000 Club' Annually Analysis: Public Pension Fixes Face Stout Legal Challenges State and Local Governments Belatedly Put Pension Deficits on Their Books Bill Revising Pension Benefits Goes to Alabama Governor for Signature [Opinion] Time to Control Runaway Military Personnel Costs Louisiana Governor's Pension Reform Proposals Watered Down by Senate Committee Actuaries Recommend a $213 Million Increase in Annual State Pension Payments to CalPERS Funded Status of U.S. Pensions Declines to 76.3 Percent in April [Guidance Overview] Employer No Longer Contributing to Multiemployer Plan Cannot Use Sale of Assets Exemption Under MPPAA The Funding of State and Local Pensions: 2011-2015 (PDF) Governmental Pension Plans: Can Peter's Sponsor Borrow From Peter To Pay Peter? California Counties Deciding to Stop 'Picking Up' Employee Pension Contributions States Scaling Back Worker Pensions to Save Money Broken ARC, Broken Promises: Underfunded Public Pension Plans Avoiding Surprises in Pension Contribution Liability: How Public Employers Can Anticipate and Evaluate 'Pension Risk' (PDF) First Quarter 2012 Pension Plan Funded Status Experience (PDF) PBGC Statement on the Bankruptcy of Hawker Beechcraft, Inc. 10 Worst-Off State Pension Funds Pension Plan Underfunding Rises Slightly During April Managing the Volatility of Defined Benefit Plan Funded Ratios and Contributions PBGC and Bendix Reach Settlement and End Litigation on Pension Debt Stockton, California Bankruptcy Would Public Employee Pensions and Bondholders Nationwide Text of U.S. Census Bureau Summary Report on State and Locally Administered Pensions, 2010 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Financial Regulators Clarify Reg Z and Compensation Rules as Applied to Retirement Plan Contributions Federal Reserve Bank Is No Friend of Defined Benefit Retirement Plans [Opinion] How Retirement Benefits Might Sink the States Can a Public Pension Plan File Bankruptcy? Historic Northern Mariana Islands Chapter 11 Case Might Tell Ohio Lawmakers Ready to Consider Reforms for Public Employee Retirement Systems [Opinion] Louisiana Pension Reform Opponents Proffer Misleading Arguments Bill Requiring Higher Employee Contributions Under Federal Retirement Plan Advances in House Across the States, Teacher Pension Problems, and Changes, Fuel Political Debate Funding Stabilization for Pension Plans on the Horizon (PDF) Michigan Legislature Eyes Pension Changes to Narrow $45 Billion Gap in Teacher Retirement Fund Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. 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