Rex Barker
EA, MAAA, FSA
Consulting Actuary
Seattle, WA, US
Rex is a consulting actuary with the Seattle office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 2000.
Experience
Rex's area of expertise is the employee benefits field, serving a wide range of corporate and multi-employer clients. He has assisted clients with many aspects of defined benefit plans, including:
- Actuarial valuations
- Asset-liability projection studies
- Nondiscrimination testing
- Withdrawal liability analysis
- Benefit adequacy studies
- Plan design studies
- Plan administration
- Experience studies
Professional Designations
- Enrolled Actuary, ERISA
- Member, American Academy of Actuaries
- Fellow, Society of Actuaries
Education
- BS, Mathematics, Linfield College
Publications
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Multiemployer Pension Funding Study – Midyear 2024
15 August 2024 - by Rex Barker, Tim Connor, Timothy J. Herman, Nina Lantz
Aggregate market value funded percentage for multiemployer plans rose to 93% as of June 30, up from 89% year-end 2022, according to our latest funding study.
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Multiemployer Pension Funding Study: Year-end 2023
21 February 2024 - by Tim Connor, Timothy J. Herman, Rex Barker, Nina Lantz
Aggregate funded percentage of U.S. multiemployer defined benefit plans rose to 89% in 2023, up from 79% in 2022, our annual year-end study shows.
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Multiemployer Pension Funding Study – Midyear 2023
15 August 2023 - by Tim Connor, Rex Barker, Timothy J. Herman, Nina Lantz
Aggregate market value funded percentage for multiemployer plans rose to 87% as of June 30, up from 79% year-end 2022, according to our latest funding study
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Multiemployer Pension Funding Study: Year-end 2022
02 March 2023 - by Tim Connor, Rex Barker, Timothy J. Herman, Nina Lantz
Milliman’s latest Multiemployer Pension Funding Study shows aggregate funding level declined significantly in 2022, despite first wave of financial assistance.
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Multiemployer Pension Funding Study: Mid-year 2022 Edition
08 August 2022 - by Nina Lantz, Rex Barker, Tim Connor, Timothy J. Herman
Financial market performance led to a sharp decline in aggregate funded percentage despite initial impact of Special Financial Assistance under the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act.
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Multiemployer Pension Funding Study: December 2021
14 February 2022 - by Nina Lantz, Rex Barker, Tim Connor, William Wade
Aggregate funding levels for multiemployer pensions improved to 91% by year-end 2021, up from 88% a year earlier.
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Multiemployer Pension Funding Study: June 2021
17 August 2021 - by Nina Lantz, Rex Barker, Tim Connor, William Wade
The aggregate funded percentage for multiemployer plans is at its highest point since 2007, estimated to be 92% as of June 30, up from 88% at the end of 2020.
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How the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 can impact corporate pension plans: Four case studies
16 April 2021 - by Ryan Cook, Rex Barker, Ryan Rowland, Stephanie Sent
We present four case studies to show how the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 can impact corporate pension plans.
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Multiemployer Pension Funding Study: December 2020
17 February 2021 - by Nina Lantz, Rex Barker, Tim Connor, William Wade
Milliman analysis shows aggregate funding levels for multiemployer plans at their highest point since 2007 following turbulent year.
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Multiemployer Pension Funding Study: June 2020
10 August 2020 - by Nina Lantz, Rex Barker, Tim Connor, William Wade
An interim update to our annual study highlights 2020 volatility in funding levels.