Description: Statistics about funded status of Producers-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan

Description: This pension plan covers MLB players, coaches, trainers and managers. For every 43 days of active service in a season, they earn one quarter of a year of service (maximum 4 quarters per season); pension benefits are related to both service and pay.

Description: Statistics about funded status of NHL pension plan

Description: Pension stats sheet for the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors Retirement Plan

Description: Fact sheet summarizing the Contribution Analysis: U.S. Multiemployer Pensions Plans report.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest’ addresses the criteria used to judge adequacy of contributions to support benefits, for Taft-Hartley pension plans with fixed benefits and fixed contributions. The panelists also address Internal Revenue Service tests of adequacy in PS 64.

Description: The Total Career Benchmark Model, consistent with Retirement 20/20 principles, focuses on reconstructing and maintaining a consistent and reasonable sharing of risks and rewards amongst the four stakeholders: Individuals, Society, Employers and the Markets. Modern technology provides the necessary tools. A series of benchmarks are used for tax limits, target pensions, accrual to date etc. The self adjusting, consistent benchmarks under the TCB Model, means that all stakeholders speak the same language. Individuals and Employers can easily compare what they have to what they need – and more importantly can see how to accrue what is needed. An individual’s ability to tax shelter income over a career is not dependent on the design of any employer pension plan. All funds allocated to an individual remain the individual’s and are not used to subsidize another person – except for the inherent risk sharing of an annuity – by hidden transfers of value.

Description: In this paper, the long-term funding consequences of negotiated improvements in pension plans are examined. Particular emphasis is placed on the effects on both contribution rates and the overall funding position of the plan of such things as benefit increases to retirees, reductions in the average retirement age, economic events that affect the size of the active work force, and the interplay between the increases in pay and benefit rates and the other valuation assumptions. A simulation model is used to uncover the influence of each variable. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This paper recommends changes to current laws affecting employee benefits, changes that would provide substantial retirement security for these and other contingent workers in Mulitempoyer plans.

Description: Statistics about AFTRA Retirement Plan and its funded status.