Several Strategies Help DB Plan Sponsors Manage Financial Risks
MassMutual discusses four main strategies for limiting or eliminating defined benefit plan risks over time: hibernating risks, establishing glide paths,...
Tag: LDI
Interest Rates, Recessions and Pension Plan De-Risking
Bob Browne, CIO at Northern Trust, argues that pension plan sponsors should not wait to de-risk their plans based solely...
Q4 2018 Volatility Leads DB Sponsors to Focus More on Risk
Asked what they plan to look for in asset management searches in the next 12 months, the majority of mid-sized...
Risk Transfer Floodgates Hold, For Now
Even with the documented acceleration of de-risking activity, Tom McCartan at PGIM Fixed Income notes that less than 1% of...
Lessons From 403(b)s When It Comes to LDI in DC Plans
The analog of defined benefit liability-driven investing on the defined contribution plan side is the discussion of in-plan guaranteed retirement...
Pension Experts Urge LDI Considerations, Stress Tests in 2019
Pension plan sponsors can avoid giving back recent gains in funded status if and when another recession strikes by implementing...
LDI Strategies and Preparing DB Plans for Recessions
Speakers on a PGIM Fixed Income webcast offered practical steps pension plan sponsors can take today and over time to...
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Pension Investment De-Risking Primer
Sterling Price, managing consultant at Findley, discusses how LDI and a dynamic investment policy help to de-risk pension plan assets.
Weyerhaeuser Takes Steps to Reduce Pension Liabilities
The company is offering a lump-sum window, transferring some liabilities to a group annuity, making a contribution to its pension...
Your DB Funded Status Has Improved? Now What?
Corporate DB plans have experience funded status improvement, and LDI strategies help plan sponsors preserve this; however, investment committees are...
Post-Crisis Pension Portfolios Include More Fixed Income, LDI Strategies
Equity prices have strongly recovered since the Great Recession, bringing some benefit to corporate pension funded status, but pension plan...
DB Plans Accelerating Contributions Due to Tax Reform
This enables corporations to expense their contributions at a higher tax rate, according to Cerulli.
Cerulli Report Maps LDI and OCIO Opportunities
Alexi Maravel, director of Cerulli’s institutional practice, observes that the LDI topic is “probably the most competitive pricing environment among...
More DB Plans Using LDI Strategies
Eighty-one percent of pension plan professionals say funded status volatility is their top motivating factor for pursuing an LDI strategy.
Retirement Industry People Moves
T. Rowe Price Names Senior DC Specialist; Vanguard Rotates Portfolio Managers; American Century Preps for Major ETF Business Launch; and...
For Some DB Plan Types IDL, Not LDI, Is the Answer
John Lowell, with October Three, says for two types of DB plans, investment-driven liabilities (IDL) is almost risk free for...
LDI Still a Viable DB Plan Derisking Strategy
Despite market volatility and a continued low interest rate environment, DB plan sponsors can still establish an effective LDI strategy...
Small Pension Plan Sponsors Fully Embrace PRT Transactions
Nearly 85% of pension plans paying PBGC premiums have less than 1,000 participants—so it only makes sense that small plans...