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Seeking consensus on LDI
The US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation called time on its commitment to liability-driven investment (LDI) in February after admitting its current strategy has a less than one-in-five chance of meeting...
Pension funds have been keen buyers of inflation as part of their liability-driven investment strategies. Much of the inflation supply has come from utility companies, but with the credit markets grinding...
New proposals by the UK Accounting Standards Board (ASB) to use a risk-free discount rate to value liabilities will send the deficits of defined benefit pension schemes soaring and could lead to increased...
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Reality bites
There has been a raft of announcements, discussion papers and consultation initiatives affecting the UK pensions environment over the last few months. The RBS Pension Solutions Group highlights the key issues and considers their potential impact on markets...
Living with volatility
Several insurers have continued to report multi-million-dollar losses attributed to hedging their variable annuity products. What went wrong and how are variable annuity risk management techniques changing? Jayne Jung reports
Legal lethargy
Constraining buy-side institutions to hold only investment-grade securities uses a nearly century-old metric with limited contemporary relevance. David Rowe supports one modest proposed reform
In for the duration
Liability-driven investment has long been a buzzword among European corporate pension funds and their dealers. Now, the concept is starting to catch on in the US. Jayne Jung talks to some early adopters
Defending pensions
Faced with a deficit of more than £3.6 billion, BAE Systems' pension fund was forced to consider a variety of innovative solutions to plug the gap between its assets and liabilities. One of them was a sale and lease-back plan with the scheme's sponsor....
Getting the balance right
Opportunistic issuance of index-linked paper by a mass of utility companies last year reinvigorated the UK inflation swaps market. But will an expected decline in utility issuance this year create a supply/demand imbalance? Gareth Gore reports
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