Milliman Insight - Employee Benefits & Investment

Advances in managing pension asset volatility

Plan fiduciaries charged with growing and nurturing plan portfolios, endowments, and other trust funds, may want to consider new strategies.

Pension Funding Index, May 2012

Corporate pension funded status declines by $39 billion in April.

2012 Pension Funding Study

Decline in discount rates drives pension plans to record deficits in 2011.

The high cost of 401(k) hardship withdrawals

The hard financial consequences of making a hardship request.

Longevity risk and retirement

A new model combining defined contribution and defined benefit plans can reduce the risk that retirees run out of money during retirement.

Rules of engagement for funds

Unanswered questions concerning a decision to let the National Council for Social Security Fund manage Guangdong provincial social security funds.

Pension Funding Index, April 2012

Market rally and rising interest rates reduce corporate pension deficit by $58 billion.

FutureCost

This powerful modeling tool projects a pension plan's assets and liabilities over the next 10 or more years.

Pension Funding Index, March 2012

Pension plans continue modest gains even as discount rates revisit their all-time low.

Retirement savings funds in CEE: 2011 update

An analysis of private pension systems in Central & Eastern European markets.

Microinsurance at Milliman

Milliman consultants talk about their involvement with microinsurance projects in the developing world.

2012 healthcare costs for American family exceed $20,000

Milliman today released the results of its 2012 Milliman Medical Index (MMI), which measures the average healthcare costs for a typical American family of four receiving healthcare through an employer-sponsored preferred provider organization (PPO) plan.

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DOL issues guidance on retirement plan fee disclosure rules

The U.S.

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Corporate pension funded status declines for first time this year

Milliman today released the results of its latest Pension Funding Index, which consists of 100 of the nation’s largest defined benefit (DB) pension plans.

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Pension Performance Dashboard

The Pension Performance Dashboard provides real-time updates on plan financial information for funding and FAS reporting, and offers monthly and quarterly updates of prior actuarial valuations based on asset and liability returns.

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