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Charles E.F. Millard is the former Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and is currently a Managing Director in charge of Pension Relations with Citigroup. He was the first Director of the PBGC to be confirmed by the United States Senate and ran the agency from 2007 to 2009.〔http://www.keightleyashner.com/publications/BNA-PBGC_011008.pdf〕 As Director, Mr. Millard was the chief executive officer of the PBGC and carried the rank of Under Secretary.〔http://www.pbgc.gov〕〔http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/nominations/1103.html〕 He was previously a member of the New York City Council, representing the Upper East Side of Manhattan as a Republican.〔Charles Millard Official Site. http://charlesmillard.com/public-service〕 ==Tenure at the PBGC== During his tenure at PBGC, the agency's deficit shrank from $18.9 billion to $11.2 billion.〔PBGC 2008 Annual Report. http://www.pbgc.gov/docs/2008_annual_report.pdf〕 The PBGC is governed by a three-person Board; the Secretaries of Treasury, Commerce, and Labor. In February 2008, the Board adopted a new investment policy presented to it by Millard.〔 Millard has argued that with very long time horizons, the PBGC should be able to invest in higher return assets. The investment policy was approved in early 2008 by PBGC's board and aims to put 45 percent of the Corporation's $55 billion in equities, 45 percent in fixed income assets, and 10 percent in alternative investments such as private equity and private real estate, replacing the investment policy in place since 2004, which put 75 to 85 percent in fixed income assets, and 15 to 25 percent in equities.〔"PBGC says goodbye to LDI". Pensions and Investments. 18 February 2008. http://www.pionline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080218/PRINTSUB/120307856/1031/TOC〕 No assets were transitioned into equities during fiscal year 2008〔PBGC Annual Report 2008 http://www.pbgc.gov/docs/2008_annual_report.pdf〕〔"PBGC was right to abandon LDI". Pensions and Investments. 4/20/09. http://www.pionline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090420/REG/904169967/-1/TOPIC&template=printart〕 and the PBGC only began the transition of some assets from fixed-income to equities in late November 2008.〔 The New York Times also noted that as of May 2009, the PBGC fund had not fully implemented this transition.〔"Inquiry Focuses on Ex-Pension Official for Bush" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/politics/15pension.html?_r=1&sq=Millard&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1242399705-jIZDhdE9lPbtjABhUP4Vhw/〕 Peter R. Orszag (then director of the Congressional Budget Office) stated the following about Millard's plan:〔Letter from Peter R. Orzag, director of Congressional Budget Office, to Hon. George Miller. 4/24/08. http://s3.amazonaws.com/propublica/assets/docs/miller_pbgc_letter_080424.pdf〕 "The change in investment strategy represents an effort on the part of PBGC to increase the expected returns on its assets and to diminish the likelihood that taxpayers will be called on to cover some of its liabilities. The new strategy is likely to produce higher returns, on average, over the long run. But the new strategy also increases the risk that PBGC will not have sufficient assets to cover retirees’ benefit payments when the economy and financial markets are weak. By investing a greater share of its assets in risky securities, PBGC is more likely to experience a decline in the value of its portfolio during an economic downturn—the point at which it is most likely to have to assume responsibility for a larger number of underfunded pension plans." The new policy is still relatively conservative when compared to private pension funds, according to ("Pensions and Investments" ), a trade publication.〔 Ron Gebhardtsbauer, former PBGC actuary and head of the Actuarial Science Program at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, stated on June 16th, 2010, "If the PBGC had followed Millard and invested in stocks in 2009, it could have $10 billion more in assets today."〔http://blogs.smeal.psu.edu/businesscasual/tag/gebhardtsbauer/〕 The New York Times reported that Millard was criticized by the PBGC inspector general for ethical matters related to his tenure as PBGC director. In 2009, Millard relied on his Fifth Amendment right not to testify before a Senate investigative committee, according to an article in the (Boston Globe ) In March 2010, the Inspector General advised Senators Grassley, Baucus, Enzi, and Harkin that her office had completed its investigation with the United States Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York and that no charges would be filed.〔Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Office of Inspector General http://oig.pbgc.gov/audit/2010/pdf/millardresponse.pdf〕〔The Center for Public Integrity http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/2061/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles E.F. Millard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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