DGA-Producer Pension & Health Plans

DGA-Producer Pension & Health Plans

Established in 1960 through collective bargaining between the Directors Guild of America and producer associations, the Plans provide retirement and healthcare security for DGA members working in film, television and media. The entity operates as a Taft-Hartley multi-employer plan, meaning its assets are jointly trusted by labor and management trustees. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the Association of Independent Commercial Producers sit across the table from the DGA, a 1936-founded labor organization whose president Lesli Linka Glatter serves as a trustee. Investment strategy spans real estate, private credit, venture capital and secondaries. Real estate is a meaningful sleeve, with holdings that include the Directors Guild of America Theater Complex at 110 West 57th Street in New York and its own headquarters at 5055 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The Plans also allocate to mixed-use portfolios managed by PNC Realty Investors and CenterSquare Investment Management. On the liquid-credit side, the program reaches into CLOs, distressed debt and direct secondaries, while the venture book covers seed through growth-stage companies. Lisa Read serves as CEO of the administrative office, while van der Boor joined in 2024 to run investments, succeeding interim and prior CIOs including Edgar Smith and Mack Clapp. The Plans maintain a Supplemental Pension Plan portfolio alongside the main fund. The board includes Jay D. Roth, Plans Chair and DGA senior advisor. Outside the actuarial pool, the linked Directors Guild Foundation operates as a separate philanthropic vehicle. A Taft-Hartley multi-employer structure makes these Plans structurally different from a corporate or public pension fund. Benefit obligations are collectively bargained, and employer contributions flow from hundreds of signatory production companies — not a single corporate sponsor — making the asset pool a shared balance sheet for an entire industry's creative workforce.