Harriet Vance

Funding Standards Editor

Pension-funding methodology, actuarial caveats, and editorial standards

Harriet Vance oversees how PensionRisk frames pension-funding health and editorial standards. The role sets how the pension-health composite is derived from funded ratio, multi-year trend, and PBGC risk classification, how actuarial caveats — discount-rate and mortality assumptions, valuation lag, public-versus-private comparability — are disclosed, and how corrections are handled. Comparisons and explainers are AI-assisted in research and drafting, then reviewed against primary DOL, CRR, and PBGC sources before publication.

Areas of focus

pension-health composite scoringdiscount-rate and assumption caveatspublic vs private plan comparabilityPBGC and state-backing framingcorrections policy

How our content is produced

Content is produced by an AI-augmented editorial team: research and drafting are AI-assisted and reviewed by the named desk editor against primary public-data sources before publication.

See our Editorial Policy, Fact-Checking Policy, and Corrections Policy.

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