The actuarial sources of the rise in unfunded liabilities in America's defined benefit plans in the 21st century

Despite a decade-long bull market between the financial crisis and the COVID-19 recession, state defined benefit pension plans had accrued more than $1.37 trillion in unfunded liabilities. However, little work has investigated the actuarial sources of these unfunded liabilities. This paper uses orig...

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