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Companies With Newly Flush Pensions See Chance to Unload the Risk
The Wall Street Journal; subscription may be required 
Oct. 15, 2018
"Higher funding levels mean corporate sponsors get a better deal when transferring retiree obligations to insurers, so many firms are finding this to be the perfect time to transfer the risks associated with carrying pension plans. Defined-benefit pension plans of S&P 500 companies were in aggregate 91% funded at the end of September ... That is the highest level since the end of 2007, when these plans were 108% funded ... Nearly one-quarter of the plans are now either fully funded or overfunded[.]"
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