"One of the biggest issues facing trustees of multiemployer [DB] plans is the concern that these plans will no longer produce the financial returns they were able to generate in the past.... While the unusually high returns of the 1980s and 1990s were probably an anomaly, the same can be said of the unusually low returns of the first decade of the 2000s. Looking at the long run, the results -- both past and projected -- are surprisingly constant."  MORE >>