April 2026
13Apr

Lufthansa Pilots To Go On Strike From Monday Over Salary And Pensions Dispute – All You Need To Know

The pilots union for Lufthansa-Europe's biggest aviation group-on Saturday called for a two day strike in Germany, starting Monday.   The latest strike-called by the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union over a salary and pensions dispute-marks the fifth strike Lufthansa has been hit by this year. "The Cockpit union feels compelled to take this step after the employers' side showed no real willingness to reach a solution in several collective bargaining disputes," VC President Andreas Pinheiro was quoted as saying by Reuters. Also Read |...

April 13, 2026
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08Apr

US. Milliman analysis: March market declines end 11-month streak of corporate pension funding improvements

Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today released the results of its Milliman 100 Pension Funding Index (PFI), which analyzes the 100 largest U.S. corporate pension plans. During March, investment returns of -3.33% caused PFI plan assets to fall to $1.298 trillion. Meanwhile, a 32-basis-point increase in monthly discount rates, to 5.65%, caused liabilities to fall to $1.192 trillion. The funded ratio slipped from 109.3% as of February 28 to 108.9% as of March 31. Still, the...

April 8, 2026
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March 2026
20Mar

Employee Satisfaction and Pension Shortfall Risk

By Annita Florou, Meng Li, Peter F. Pope & Nipat Puangjampa Defined benefit (DB) pension plans are important to employee welfare. However, they carry risk as they are subject to minimum funding requirements. We examine the effect of a relaxation in pension funding rules on employee satisfaction by exploiting the adoption of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). We find that employees of DB firms are less satisfied with their firms and their senior managers, after...

March 20, 2026
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11Mar

Jamaica. Tourism Workers Pension Scheme Surpasses $5B in Savings

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has announced that the Tourism Workers Pension Scheme has now surpassed $5 billion in savings since its inception. “I would like to indicate, by way of out-turn, that the world-class, world-standard, historic Tourism Workers Pension Scheme, in its first two years… notwithstanding [Hurricanes] Melissa and Beryl… stands now at $5.1 billion,” he said. Mr. Bartlett made the announcement during the Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives meeting on March 6 at Gordon House, where...

March 11, 2026
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February 2026
13Feb

Lufthansa Strike Puts Pension Dispute And Long Term Profitability In Focus

Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St's investing ideas for FREE. Deutsche Lufthansa (XTRA:LHA) is facing a coordinated 24 hour strike by pilots and cabin crew. The walkout is set to affect departures across all German airports. The dispute centers on retirement and pension funding, with management citing limited financial flexibility. The action is expected to disrupt passenger travel and Lufthansa's near term operations. For you as an investor, this strike sits at...

February 13, 2026
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11Feb

Germany. Tens Of Thousands Of Passengers Set To Be Stranded As Lufthansa Pilots Announce Strike in Pension Dispute

Tens of thousands of passengers who are set to travel with German flag carrier Lufthansa this week could be left stranded after the airline’s pilots’ union announced a one-day strike that will take place on Thursday in a dispute over pensions. The Vereinigung Cockpit union announced that the strike will start at 12:01 am on February 12 and conclude at 11:59 pm after seven rounds of tense pension negotiations failed to resolve a deadlock. “We would have liked to avoid an...

February 11, 2026
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January 2026
27Jan

UK. Pension contributions influence retention but fall short of employee expectations: Penfold

Almost nine in ten UK employees say their workplace pension influences whether they stay with their current employer, but employers treated pensions as a compliance exercise rather than as a strategic element of employee wellbeing, according to new research from workplace pension provider Penfold. The data is drawn from Penfold’s Retirement Reality Check report, based on surveys of 2,000 UK employees and 500 small and medium-sized businesses. The findings underline the growing importance of pensions in recruitment and retention at...

January 27, 2026
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14Jan

Swiss regulator flags ‘acute’ systemic risks at multi-employer pension funds

Switzerland’s occupational pension supervisor, the Oberaufsichtskommission Berufliche Vorsorge (OAK BV), is tightening oversight of pension funds exposed to systemic risks that could undermine their financial stability. In a note circulated in December, the authority set out instructions contained in directive W-01/2025, which entered into force on 1 January. The directive requires cantonal and regional supervisory authorities to carry out a comprehensive assessment of financial and non-financial risks for the pension funds under their supervision. OAK BV now expects a “structured assessment...

January 14, 2026
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13Jan

US. Verizon’s PRT Case Dismissed in New York

A federal judge in New York dismissed a complaint accusing Verizon and its advisers of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act through a $5.7 billion pension risk transfer. In a January 8 opinion in Dempsey et al. v. Verizon Communications Inc. et al., U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that retirees lacked Article III standing to challenge Verizon’s decision to terminate two defined benefit pension plans by purchasing group annuities from Prudential Insurance Co. of America and RGA Reinsurance Co. Hellerstein, a senior U.S....

January 13, 2026
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08Jan

German dentists’ pension fund sues advisers after C$1.77B loss

A pension fund for more than 10,000 German dentists has launched legal action against its former auditor, an external adviser and several ex-managers after suffering investment losses of over €1.1 billion (about C$1.77 billion), according to reporting by Bloomberg and AwazLive. Versorgungswerk der Zahnärztekammer Berlin (VZB), which manages roughly €2.2 billion (C$3.55 billion) for dentists in Berlin, Brandenburg and Bremen, said the losses were significant enough to prompt a corruption probe by Berlin prosecutors. In legal filings, the fund alleges that...

January 8, 2026
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