Maintain a fully
funded pension plan that holds a balanced asset allocation.
In 2010, only Wisconsin had a fully
funded pension plan. Three other states--North Carolina.
Additionally, Southwestern Energy offers a fully
funded pension plan, an impressive 401 (k), free health screenings and flu shots and an employee assistance program for mental and physical issues.
Conley, 58, ordained nine years ago, will retire from active ministry as a priest in good standing with a fully
funded pension plan.
The final cost of a
funded pension plan consists of total benefits paid plus operating expense outlay minus investment income.
For a while during the last decade, Hewlett-Packard had a fully
funded pension plan that was invested almost entirely in fixed income and had hedged 100% of its interest-rate risk.
E&P is an economic concept that is intended to measure the funds available to a corporation for paying dividends; contributions to a
funded pension plan reduce those funds without regard to whether those contributions are greater or lesser than they would be if the plan were subject to ERISA.
If a company folds, a fully
funded pension plan could survive unscathed, But most plans are underfunded by the time a company folds.