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Rising interest rates lowered corporate pension liability estimates in April, improving the average funding rate to 90.1 percent, a 2.9 percent increase.

Less than one-half of the very substantial private equity costs to public pension funds are being disclosed.

A central provision of the Department of Labors new conflict-of-interest proposal would replace how the Employee Retirement Income Security Act defines fiduciary for plan advisors with stricter language.

Certain mortality projections would increase life expectancy by 2.3 years and reduce the funded ratio of the nations public pension plans to 67 percent.

States and localities have shortchanged their retirement plans while services such as schools and crumbling infrastructure scream for resources.

Nearly four in 10 analysts dont think the municipal bond market, and ultimately the credit quality of local governments, has fully recovered from the last recession.

Corporate pension funding status is down 4.9 percent from where it was last year at this time and down 0.1 percent from the start of 2015.

Could the retirement security of American households become a hot-button issue in the 2016 elections?