SPRINGDALE -- A proposal to give senior citizens a break on their water rates drew interest and support from aldermen, but generated some pushback from the head of the Springdale Water Utilities.

We show that firms' nominal required returns to capital (i.e., their discount rates) are sticky with respect to expected inflation. Such nominally sticky discount rates imply that increases in ...

Pension finances ended 2025 on a high note, as the funded status of the largest 100 corporate defined benefit plans improved for the ninth consecutive month in December 2025, according to Milliman’s ...

The market has been doing well since my last article about BST (can be read here), as the S&P 500 is up 11.01%. Since then, shares of BST have climbed 10.83%, and after the monthly distributions are ...

The government has proposed aligning the discount rate review periods with the valuation cycles of public service pension schemes, and is taking forward reforms to the cost-cap mechanism first ...