Pension modelling, monitoring & analytics
FutureCost
Unlock the future impact of your decisions
FutureCost is a suite of robust, web-based tools designed for corporations, multiemployer plan sponsors, and public plan entities that are faced with the short- and long-term risk inherent in plan sponsorship, volatility in key costs and financial measures, and long-term contribution needs.
Ask tough questions. Expect good answers.
FutureCost projects the assets and liabilities of a retirement plan into the future, providing key insights into plan contribution requirements, funded status, accounting expense, and potential impacts to your balance sheet.
Project any “what-if” scenario you can imagine
- What if liability discount rates fluctuate?
- What if asset returns are different than expected?
- What if we make an investment strategy change?
- What if we come up with a different contribution strategy?
- What if we make a benefit change?
- What if the covered population changes?
Daily updates to your phone
Estimate daily discount rates, funded status, and various projections sent via email or text message to you or as many team members as you’d like. These estimates and projections are also accessible on the web.
Daily updates give you the power to reallocate assets at opportune times, be notified of unexpected future requirements, and closely track the status your defined benefit plan(s).
Ready to share
FutureCost stores and saves important plan-related information like plan documents or actuarial valuation reports for future reference in one convenient location.
Best of all, FutureCost makes even the most complex results easy to understand, in a clean, fresh interface, with output that’s easy to share with your executive team.
Customise and run projections in advance of key internal meetings, incorporating charts and graphs from FutureCost into presentations. Use FutureCost to model scenarios in real time for future discount rates, inflation, investment returns, and contribution patterns.
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Industry insight
Episode 16: How pensions in America have changed (and should change again)
The American pension plan is in flux, but not for the first time in U.S. history; this episode discusses why it’s a turbulent time for retirement security and what the next generation of pension plans could – and should – look like.
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