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: Statistics about funded status of multiemployer pension plan.

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

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

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