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Stock Gains Don't Rescue Pension Funding

Private-equity firms, meanwhile, may have even better reasons than usual to derisk pension plans sponsored by portfolio companies.

October 30, 2009

The stock market's 15% leap in the third quarter helped out companies on two fronts: their share prices rose, and they got a good return on their own equity investments. But one thing the bull run did not do was trigger a rise in the funded status of defined-benefit pension plans. Read more...

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