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Published in TZ Latest News 22 August, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff

Top 25 Corporate Pension Plans Alone Are Underfunded By Over $225 Billion

Massively underfunded public and private pensions, and all the risks inherent therein, have been a frequent topic of conversation for us recently.  Today, Tobias Levkovich at Citigroup published a report pointing out just how dire the situation is for the S&P 500’s largest corporate pension funds.  The study found that pensions of just the companies in the S&P 500 alone were over $375BN underfunded at the end of 2015 with the top 25 underfunded plans accounting for over $225BN of the underfunding.  Moreover, Citi pointed out that pensions don’t seem to be p

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