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Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417)
Jon Glidden is the CIO of Delta Air Lines, where he oversees the company's $16 billion pension fund. Jon joined Delta in 2011, when the plan had $7.5 billion in assets, a $13 billion underfunded liability, and the highest actuarial expected rate of return (9%) of any company in the S&P 500. Despite funded status that threatened the solvency of the company thirteen years ago, investment performance combined with corporate contributions that offset plan payouts have improved Delta's funding status from 42% to 102% today, creating the largest corporate pension turnaround in history.
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