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The 2015 Pension 40: Jeffrey Immelt

No. 14 Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and Chief Executive / General Electric Co.

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Jeffrey Immelt
Chairman and Chief Executive / General Electric Co.
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For the past five years, General Electric Co.’sJeffrey Immelt, 59, has been perhaps the highest-profile CEO to tackle what he described in 2010 as a “drag” on his company’s earnings: corporate pensions. In 2011, GE shuttered its defined benefit plan to new employees and changed how it reported pension outlays. But the problem persists. With $48 billion in assets, GE has the fourth-largest corporate defined benefit plans in the U.S. and is running a $15.8 billion deficit. This year, after union negotiations and cuts to health care payments for beneficiaries over 65, Immelt spoke about the “headwinds” of large annual benefit costs at GE’s annual meeting: “We always want our pension plan to be strong and supported, and it’s that way today. And it will always be that way.” Critics point out that Immelt and other executives are eligible for a so-called supplementary pension plan if they remain with GE until age 60. Even as the company was cutting health care outlays, Immelt’s pay doubled in 2014, to $37.3 million, largely thanks to an $18.4 million rise in the value of his pension payout and deferred pay, which the company attributed to changing interest rates and an actuarial adjustment. As of 2014, after 32 years at GE, Immelt had accumulated $1.8 million in the defined benefit plan; $70.3 million in the supplementary plan, which is unfunded; and $1.78 million in a third retirement fund. In September, GE announced it was selling its $115 billion asset management business, which oversees pension investments and other assets — part of a larger retreat from financial services. The proceeds, which could be as much as $500 million, will go toward the defined benefit obligation.

The 2015 Pension 40
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2.John & Laura Arnold
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
3.Chris Christie
New Jersey
4.Randi Weingarten
AmericanFederation of Teachers
5.Phyllis Borzi
U.S. Department of Labor
6.Kevin de León
California
7.Alejandro García Padilla
Commonwealth ofPuerto Rico
8.Laurence Fink
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9.Rahm Emanuel
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10。Sean McGarvey
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11.John Kline
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12.J. Mark Iwry
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13.Damon Silvers
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14.Jeffrey Immelt
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15.Joshua Gotbaum.
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16.Robin Diamonte
United Technologies Corp.
17.Mark Mullet
Washington
18.Terry O'Sullivan
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19.Raymond Dalio
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20.Ted Wheeler
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25.Caitlin Long
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26.Kenneth Feinberg
The Law Offices of Kenneth R. Feinberg
27.orrin hatch.
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28.Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
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29.Ian Lanoff
Groom Law Group
30.Joshua Rauh
Stanford Graduate School of Business
31.Ted Eliopoulos
California Public Employees' Retirement System
32.Edward (Ted) Siedle
Benchmark Financial Services
33。Teresa Ghilarducci
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34。Denise Nappier
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35.W. Thomas Reeder Jr.
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36.Hank Kim
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