Crain’s Detroit reported it last month but it finally made it onto the MPRA website this afternoon.
From their latest 5500:
22 Oct
IBEW 237 – Waiting to Die
Last April one of the worst funded multiemployer plans to file for benefit cuts under MPRA (I.B.E.W. Local Union No. 237 Pension Plan out of Niagara Falls, NY) withdrew their application. Last week they submitted their 5500 filing for 2018 (3 times):
What changed?
19 Oct
No Will on Pension Reform
In plugging his new book George F. Will made the point:
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I now have the book and Donald Trump is indeed not in the index. What does appear (once) is the word ‘pensions’ on page xxx.
18 Oct
Central States – Gone Money
With the Central States Pension Plan about to go bankrupt and bring the PBGC (and the entire private-sector pension system) down with it, some might ask where did all their money go?
Over one-hundred million dollars of it went down ratholes like Argentina, Venezuela, Lehman Brothers, and David’s Bridal.
16 Oct
5500 Day After – Central States
Another 5500 filing season has passed leaving some time, but little energy, for this blogging. Fortunately there were a lot of calendar year filings recently submitted for pensions in the news so it is the perfect time to do some updating – starting with the plan that is most likely to bring the PBGC (and the entire private pension system) down – Central States.
13 Oct
Murphy’s Appetite for NJ Pension Reform
When asked about it on Bloomberg this past week:
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Murphy’s answer with truth serum would come closer to:
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11 Oct
Consolidating Illinois Pension Problems
What can be done with all those badly funded Illinois public pension plans? A task force says to merge them and they put out a report on why it makes sense to them that Mary Pat Campbell debunked nicely including this note:
