Sitting on a $1trn time bomb

By Robert Arnott April 2002 (Magazine)

The US economy is sitting on a trillion-dollar time bomb, in the form of unrealistic pension return expectations. It affects defined benefit, defined contribution and cash balance plans alike. Is this an alarmist proposition? Alarming, yes. Alarmist, no. The average pension fund in the US is assuming a 9% return ...

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