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General Electric Pension Plan vs Connecticut Teachers Retirement Board

Side-by-side pension health comparison from DOL and public plan data

General Electric Pension Plan and Connecticut Teachers Retirement Board are meaningfully apart on the LakeQuality pension-health rubric: General Electric Pension Plan grades A while Connecticut Teachers Retirement Board grades C. Funding ratios: 91% vs 52%.

General Electric Pension Plan comes out ahead on the composite rubric. For a participant in either plan, the spread is informative but not directly actionable — pension participation is not portable, so the relevant question is what each plan's funded-status trajectory means for that participant's benefit security.

Verdict

General Electric Pension Plan has a stronger Pension Health Score of 95/100 (A) compared to Connecticut Teachers Retirement Board at 51/100 (C). Funding ratios differ by 38.7 percentage points (91.0% vs 52.3%). General Electric Pension Plan covers 121,730 participants.

MetricGeneral Electric Pension PlanConnecticut Teachers Retirement Board
Health Score
Composite of funding ratio, trend, and PBGC risk
95/100 (A)*51/100 (C)
Funding Ratio
Assets as % of liabilities (100%+ is fully funded)
91.0%*52.3%
Total Assets$20.2B$20.5B
Total Liabilities$22.2B*$39.2B
Unfunded Liability$2.0B*$18.7B
Participants121,73092,000
1-Year Investment Return6.8%*5.0%
Plan Typecorporatepublic
PBGC Risk Levellowhigh
SponsorGE Aerospace (formerly General Electric)State of Connecticut

General Electric Pension Plan has a stronger Pension Health Score of 95/100 (A) compared to Connecticut Teachers Retirement Board at 51/100 (C). Funding ratios differ by 38.7 percentage points (91.0% vs 52.3%). General Electric Pension Plan covers 121,730 participants.

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