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French PM to suspend Macron’s flagship pension reform

By Elizabeth Pineau and Michel Rose Source: Reuters French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu promised on Tuesday to suspend a landmark pension reform until after the 2027 election, sacrificing one of President Emmanuel Macron's legacy achievements to ensure the government's survival. By bowing to pressure from leftist lawmakers who revile the 2023 reform, Lecornu has managed to stave off a stark escalation in France's months-long political crisis. The Socialists welcomed his concession, saying they would not vote to topple him [...]

CORPaTH2025-10-15T10:14:16-07:00October 14th, 2025|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: france, Pension Reform|

Trump isn’t the only one targeting federal employees. House Republicans are pushing cuts to pension benefits

By Tami Luhby Source: CNN After months of contending with the Trump administration’s multi-pronged effort to downsize the federal workforce, government employees are now facing the possibility of another major change that could push even more of them out the door. House Republicans are looking to make several big adjustments to federal workers’ retirement benefits to help pay for the party’s sweeping tax and spending cuts package. The House Oversight Committee last week approved a plan that would squeeze [...]

CORPaTH2025-05-12T16:02:10-07:00May 10th, 2025|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: House Republicans, retirement benefits|

House GOP drafts cuts to federal employee pension system

Source: Pensions & Investments Federal employee pension benefits are set to be pared back in Republicans’ giant tax and spending package working its way through the U.S. House, another slap at a workforce roiled by Elon Musk’s cost-cutting efforts. Read the full article

CORPaTH2025-04-30T16:37:24-07:00April 30th, 2025|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: Federal employee pension benefits, house gop, pension cuts|

Alaska’s Pension Reform Faces Another Delay

Source: National Public Pension Coalition Last week in Alaska, Senate Majority Leader Cathy Giessel and House Majority Leader Chuck Kopp signalled that passage of a bill restoring a defined benefit pension for Alaska public employees was unlikely to pass both chambers before the 2025 legislative session ends next month. A piece from the Anchorage Daily News noted that last year, the Senate adopted Leader Giessel’s bill only to have it get stuck in the previously conservative-controlled House. This time, [...]

CORPaTH2025-04-30T16:35:27-07:00April 24th, 2025|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: alaska, Pension Reform|

Study: Decline in DB Plans Widens Income Inequality Gap

By Michael Katz Source: Chief Investment Officer NCPERS research found that increasing income inequality ‘degrades national economic growth.’ Research done by the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems found that public policies aimed at cutting public costs by reducing pension benefits or switching to defined contribution plans may actually increase the need for public spending due to “the dynamic interrelationship between pension reforms, income inequality, the economy, and market return.” The continuing decline of the number of defined [...]

joey2024-08-21T12:03:54-07:00August 20th, 2024|Categories: Defined Benefit Plans, Pension Funding, Pension Reform, Retirement|Tags: defined benefit pension plans, income inequality, ncpers|

NIRS Offers Congress 6 Recommendations for Expanding Access to Private-Sector Pensions

By Paul Mulholland Source: Plan Sponsor The National Institute on Retirement Security has published a report providing recommendations to Congress about how to increase defined benefit plan creation in the private sector. The report was commissioned by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. The report makes six core policy recommendations: reduce Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation insurance premium rates; formally recognize risk-sharing plans; provide more flexibility for overfunded plans; allow pre-tax employee contributions; and permit transfers between [...]

CORPaTH2024-05-10T15:36:43-07:00May 9th, 2024|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: nirs, private sector pensions|

Illinois’ top court upholds consolidation of police, firefighters’ pension funds

By Rob Kozlowski Source: Pensions & Investments The Illinois Supreme Court has affirmed the constitutionality of two new consolidated investment funds combining the assets of the state's municipal police and firefighters' pension funds. The court released its opinion on Jan. 19, and the decision appears likely to end a multiyear battle that followed Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's signing of legislation in 2019 that consolidated the state's municipal police and fire pension plans based outside the city of Chicago into [...]

CORPaTH2024-01-23T13:51:53-08:00January 19th, 2024|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: illinois, Illinois Supreme Court, pension funds|

What’s next for France’s pension reform?

Source: Reuters France's Constitutional Council is due to deliver its verdict on Friday on a deeply unpopular bill which will delay retirement by two years to 64, and on plans for a referendum to challenge it. Here is why this matters and what could happen: VERDICT ON THE PENSION BILL * The Council can strike down the bill altogether if it considers it breaches the Constitution. Opposition parties have asked it to do so, for choosing to tack the [...]

CORPaTH2023-04-14T08:30:46-07:00April 14th, 2023|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: france, France's Constitutional Council|

French unions rally supporters to the streets ahead of pension ruling

By Bart Biesemans, Layli Foroudi and Ingrid Melander Source: Reuters Union activists barged into the Paris headquarters of luxury goods company LVMH on Thursday, saying the French government should shelve plans to make people work longer for their pension and tax the rich more instead. In a 12th day of nationwide protests since mid-January, striking workers also disrupted garbage collections in Paris and blocked river traffic on part of the Rhine in eastern France. "You're looking for money to [...]

CORPaTH2023-04-14T08:29:00-07:00April 14th, 2023|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: france, french unions|

A Decade of Reforms Has Strengthened State Pension Plans

Source: Pew Trusts Thanks to more than a decade of fiscal discipline, many state public retirement systems are on the cusp of long-term solvency and sustainability. Since the Great Recession, state policymakers have increased employer and employee pension contributions and changed benefit provisions. In some cases, they have also implemented reforms that have strengthened risk management practices, which can help keep costs relatively stable without increasing unfunded liabilities for future generations of taxpayers. However, volatile investment markets and high [...]

CORPaTH2023-03-16T10:01:01-07:00March 16th, 2023|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: fiscal discipline, great recession|

Emmanuel Macron unveils his pension reforms

Source: The Economist The French government has decided to go ahead with a controversial pension reform that looks set to divide the country and spark social unrest. On January 10th Elisabeth Borne, the prime minister, unveiled the details of changes to the country’s mandatory pension rules. The fate of these measures will test Emmanuel Macron’s ability to continue to reform France during his second presidential term. The centrepiece is a raising of the legal minimum retirement age from 62 [...]

CORPaTH2023-01-16T16:28:26-08:00January 16th, 2023|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: Emmanuel Macron, france|

Vermont governor vetoes pension reform bill, but override likely

By Margarida Correia Source: Pensions & Investments Vermont Gov. Phil Scott has vetoed legislation unanimously passed in the House and Senate to reform the state's pension systems for teachers and state employees. In a letter to lawmakers on Monday, Mr. Scott rebuked the bill, saying it "does not include enough structural change to solve the enormous unfunded liability problems the state faces." He raised concerns that despite adding $250 million in additional taxpayer money, the state in several years [...]

CORPaTH2022-05-04T08:35:37-07:00May 4th, 2022|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: Pension Reform, vermont|

44% of U.S. pension plan sponsors set to review, renegotiate fees

Source: Benefits Canada Nearly half (44 per cent) of pension plan sponsors in the U.S. said they intend to review and/or renegotiate their plan’s management fees over the next one to two years, whether it’s custody fees (27 per cent) or investment management fees (17 per cent), according to a survey by consulting firm Callan. The survey, which polled more than 160 U.S. organizations representing 194 plans with more than US$975 billion in assets under management, found the average [...]

CORPaTH2021-12-02T08:45:29-08:00December 2nd, 2021|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: management fees, pension plan sponsors|

Gensler directs SEC staff to weigh further proxy-voting rules

By Brian Croce Source: Pensions & Investments The SEC's division of corporation finance will not recommend enforcement actions related to a series of amendments to the proxy-voting advice rule that were finalized last year after Chairman Gary Gensler announced Tuesday that he asked the staff to consider recommending further regulatory action on the issue. In July, the SEC, in a 3-1 vote with Republicans in control, approved sweeping changes to rules governing proxy advisory firms. The rule amendments made [...]

CORPaTH2021-06-07T14:49:11-07:00June 7th, 2021|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: proxy-voting advice rule, sec|

France invokes clause to push through pension reform

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has said the government invoked a special clause in the country’s Constitution to push through a controversial pension reform plan without a parliamentary vote. Speaking at the Lower House of Parliament, Philippe on Saturday announced his decision to use Article 49-3 to make into law the government’s pension reform bill, reports Xinhua news agency. The French goverment has planned to replace the current pension system of 42 regimes by a point-based single one with [...]

CORPaTH2020-03-02T15:00:13-08:00March 2nd, 2020|Categories: Pension Reform|Tags: france, Pension Reform|