"Beginning in the late 1980s and early 1990s, employers' rights to select single employer DB Plan assumptions were gradually confiscated through a series of Pension Acts in the name of employee protections.... This, and the complexity of the PPA '06 requirements discourages new DB Plan formations.... Current monetary policies and economic conditions do not imply stable investment return rates that will lower unfunded pension liabilities in the absence of other changes."

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