2050 pensioner-to-worker ratio will be 1:1.3, official says.

In “Latest Trends in DB Pension Risk Management,” Mike Jarasitis CFA, and Francois Pellerin, FSA, EA, CERA, CFA, leverage their extensive learnings from plan sponsors, consultants, and pension stakeholders to share current trends, opportunities, and issues impacting U.S. DB plan stakeholders. Airs at 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.

How big is the gap between what we expect the markets to deliver and what investors need? What should be done with the investment portfolio to close this gap?

Interest, new benefit accrual boosts total pension liability to almost $5 trillion.

Nearly half of plan sponsors do not consider themselves a fiduciary.

The 2008 credit crisis highlighted the risks associated with having large sums of money invested in opaque, illiquid assets. Nine years later, little has changed to improve transparency in the alternative investments marketplace. 

Innovation can come from blending and managing goals that can sometimes be at odds with each other. Tom Joy has done exactly that over the last year.