JAPAN - Japanese pension plan sponsors have restored funding ratios to healthy levels and are exploring hybrid benefits structures such as cash balance plans, according to Greenwich Associates.
In 2003 the funding ratio of pension plans stood at 62%; this year nearly two-thirds of funds reported assets greater than 90% of their long-term liability requirements. Tomio Sumiyoshi, consul...
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