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

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Walk into any industry conference on pensions in Europe, and liability-driven investment (LDI) is bound to feature fairly prominently. The technique, where the risk profile of a firm's pension liabilities is used as a basis for making its investment decisions, has been increasing in popularity in Europe for the past two years, with a growing list of big-name firms adopting LDI strategies in one form or another. In the US, however, pension fund managers have been a little more sceptical about the

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