Tag: risk management

August 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the first decade of the millennium, we saw market crashes that wiped billions of...

August 4, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The funded status of U.S. corporate pension plans declined in July to 90.8%, according to...

July 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Interest in specific investment outcomes is likely to drive continued institutional exchange-traded fund (ETF) adoption,...

July 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – There is a spectrum of de-risking strategies defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors can use.

July 29, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Market corrections are notoriously difficult—many say impossible—to predict, but that doesn’t mean investors should abandon...

July 25, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Alliance Benefit Group (ABG) has launched a new partnership with Hueler Income Solutions to expand...

July 24, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Seeyond Multi-Asset Allocation Fund from Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM) invests in stocks, bonds...

July 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule amendments establish structural and operational reforms aimed at addressing...

July 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The average participant in the U.S. defined contribution (DC) retirement system is 43 years old...

July 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – American adults under age 30 favor cash and other lower-risk assets, even as the basis...

July 18, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension plan transaction recently announced by British Telecom, offers a glimpse of a coming...

July 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – About 30 investment firms and other parties responded to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s latest...

June 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Plan sponsors should reconsider how to think about the growth portfolio in a liability-driven investing...

June 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The relative attractiveness of annuitizing pension liabilities fell for the second month in a row,...

June 20, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – There is something of a contradiction at the heart of many prepackaged target-date fund (TDF)...

June 16, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Sage Advisory Services, an Austin, Texas-based asset manager, released a liability-driven investing (LDI) solution tailored...

June 12, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company is participating in Penbridge Advisors' Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) Database.

June 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The cost of purchasing an annuity to cover defined benefit (DB) plan liabilities continues to...

June 9, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Eight in 10 defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors expressed interest in pension risk transfer products.

June 5, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A white paper on U.S. pensions covers the major themes impacting the funding of defined...