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Is Your Pension Plan Sustainable? Why the Funding Ratio Is Not Enough
August 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown
IN BRIEF Most trustee and board discussion of a pension plan begins and ends with the funding ratio. It is the wrong number to end on — not because it is inaccurate, but because it describes one day and says nothing about whether the plan recovers from it. Three questions matter more. How mature...
