Last year was a great year for pension funds, no doubt about it. But is trouble looming?

First, there's the tapering of the Fed's bond buying program.

"The big unknown is the effect of the stimulus on the equity market," said Zorast Wadia, principal and consulting actuary for Milliman Inc. in New York. "A loss [in those markets] could offset gains" garnered from higher interest rates.

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