Comprehensive Model Risk Management and governance review. Assess conceptual soundness, operational validity, efficacy in functionality and performance, transparency and sufficiency of documentation, and effectiveness of model governance. |
McKinsey & Company, Inc. |
PIMS Single-Employer Peer Review
PIMS Multiemployer Peer Review
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Review of Capital Market Assumptions and the modeling of interest rates, asset returns and other macroeconomic variables. |
Mercer (US) Inc. |
PBGC PIMS Peer Review |
Review of the data inputs and the process followed for preparing the data sets used. Develop recommendations to improve the plan, participant, and plan sponsor data used to produce the projections. |
Buck Global, LLC |
PBGC PIMS Peer Review |
Review of PBGC’s Multiemployer (ME) PIMS Recoded Model. |
Cheiron |
MAP-21 Peer Review FY 2019 |
Modeling of single-employer plan sponsors’ contribution policies and provide analysis on risk transfer activities. Modeling of changes in the number of active participants in multiemployer plans. |
Advanced Analytical Consulting Group, Inc. |
MAP-21 PIMS Peer Review FY 2019
Multiemployer Active Participants
Single-employer Risk Transfers
Single-employer Contributions
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Review of the current modeling of bankruptcy and industry-wide clusters of bankruptcies, as well as contagion effects that might spread through the multiemployer pension system. |
Advanced Analytical Consulting Group, Inc. |
MAP-21 PIMS Peer Review FY 2018
Bankruptcy Report
Contagion Report
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An in-depth, review of PBGC’s SE and ME PIMS. Split into three deliverables over three years:
- FY 2016 and FY 2017 — stochastic modeling process, coding of the models, internal consistency, and ease of implementation of modifications
- FY 2015 — simulation of plan sponsors and plan viability, modeling of sponsor failure risk and PBGC plan administration, PIMS model development, modification, and refinement
- FY 2014 — modeling of macroeconomic variables, PIMS documentation, model output.
Procurement was led by Social Security Administration.
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FTI, Inc. (via Social Security Administration) |
MAP-21 Peer Reviews (FY 2016)
MAP-21 Peer Reviews (FY 2015)
MAP-21 Peer Reviews (FY 2014)
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Review and evaluate the data, assumptions, and methods underlying models of the PBGC’s pension plan insurance programs and related models (PIMS) of pension funding and sustainability. Procurement was led by Social Security Administration. |
Retirement Research Consortium, National Bureau of Economic Research, and Brookings Institute |
MAP-21 Peer Reviews (FY 2013) |
Evaluate the soundness of the economic and statistical theory and actuarial principles that underlie ME-PIMS |
Buck Consultants |
Review of ME-PIMS (FY 2012) |