Frozen Plans

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Frozen Plans March 10, 2010 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

The news is full of stories on employers that have frozen their defined benefits plans. Actuaries and other pension professionals are more likely than ever to come into contact with a frozen plan on a regular basis. The presenters on this audiocast address several topics related to frozen plans such as:

  • Planning and preparation entailed in buying annuities for frozen plans;
  • For either a FAS 88 settlement or when they terminate as well as discussing the “buy-in” concept; and
  • Where this may be appropriate for your clients;
  • How to set long term and short term pension goals;
  • Strategic investment policy - only taking risks that are expected to be rewarded when considering all assets and liabilities;
  • Discussion of the systematic and non-systemic risks embedded in pension liabilities;
  • Using surplus optimization to determine optimal asset portfolios;
  • How synthetics such as interest rate swaps expand the surplus efficient frontier;
  • Tactical considerations in moving toward optimal long term strategic benchmark; and
  • Journey management - dynamically changing the asset allocation as the funded ratio changes.

Credits: EA Non-Core: 1.50 CPD: 1.50
  • 1 . Howard A. Freidin
  • 2 . Tom Toale PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  • 3 . Daniel Ransenberg BlackRock