Sibson Consulting and Segal Marco Advisors’ Pension Funding Tracker Shows Funding Increase in Third Quarter

It was a good quarter for equities, which offset liability increases

Source: Segal Consulting and Segal Marco Advisor's Prism (Graphic: Business Wire)

NEW YORK--()--The funded status of the model pension plan examined by Sibson Consulting and Segal Marco Advisors went up by 1 percentage point to 83 percent in the third quarter of 2017. The funding increase was due to a 4 percent rise in asset value that offset a 2 percent liability increase.

“Domestic stocks were positive for an eighth consecutive quarter, but were outperformed by both developed international and emerging market stocks, aided somewhat by a weakening dollar,” said David Palmerino, vice president with Segal Marco Advisors.

National Retirement Practice Leader Stewart Lawrence noted the importance for plan sponsors to set a course of action as their funded status changes over time. “Particularly for closed or frozen plans, setting a thoughtful course of action, or ‘journey’, can be a prudent way to avoid merely reacting to new data as it emerges,” he said. “As plan sponsors start to crystallize strategies and tactics for 2018, this might be an appropriate time to raise the issue of examining the plan’s risk-mitigation strategy.”

To speak with one of our consultants about the model plan, and how it may inform plan sponsors’ decision-making, please contact Todd Kohlhepp.

Segal Marco Advisors (www.segalmarco.com), a member of The Segal Group, is a newly merged firm of two leading investment consultancies – The Marco Consulting Group and Segal Rogerscasey. Together this firm provides innovative, client-driven consulting advice, outsourcing solutions, proxy voting and corporate governance. Clients include joint boards of trustees administering benefit plans under the Taft-Hartley Act, state and local governments, corporations, non-profit organizations, endowments and foundations. The firm works with financial services firms through Rogerscasey, a Division of Segal Advisors, and with Canadian clients through Segal Rogerscasey Canada.

Sibson Consulting (www.sibson.com), a member of The Segal Group, provides strategic human resources solutions to corporate and non-profit employers and professional service firms. Sibson's services include benefits, compensation, human capital management and change management consulting.

Contacts

The Segal Group
Todd Kohlhepp, 212-251-5087
tkohlhepp@segalco.com

Contacts

The Segal Group
Todd Kohlhepp, 212-251-5087
tkohlhepp@segalco.com