{"id":72408,"date":"2020-01-05T02:33:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T07:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=72408"},"modified":"2020-01-07T01:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T06:58:32","slug":"big-gains-have-not-improved-funded-status-for-u-s-corporate-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2020\/big-gains-have-not-improved-funded-status-for-u-s-corporate-pensions.html","title":{"rendered":"Big gains have not improved funded status for U.S. corporate pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque)  U.S. companies reaped their biggest return on pension plan assets in 16 years last year, but the funded status for corporate pensions is stagnant. A new analysis from Willis Towers Watson shows that despite a 19.8 percent average investment return, the decline in interest rates caused their pension debt to grow-wiping out gains from investments in stocks and bonds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/676992\/Big_gains_have_not_improved_funded_status_for699.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) U.S. companies reaped their biggest return on pension plan assets in 16 years last year, but the funded status for corporate pensions is stagnant. A new analysis from Willis Towers Watson shows that despite a 19.8 percent average investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72409,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72408\/revisions\/72409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}