It’s time to step up work on longevity risk to avoid pensions becoming unsustainable, says the OECD—and a group of UK actuaries have done just that.
Good news: Your funding shortfall is soon to be erased. Bad news: You can forget your inflation hedging plans.
Dumping coal and oil company assets would likely hurt the world’s largest sovereign fund more than it would help the planet, its board concluded.
New research by the NAPF and Club Vita in the UK gives granular data on longevity trends among defined benefit pension members.
Global car parts manufacturer TRW Automotive has successfully de-risked its UK, US, and Canadian pensions in a wide-ranging project.
Losing $720 million on the deal thus far, the head of the Korea Investment Corporation has promised to learn from the mistake.
2014 is already a record-breaking year for UK pension funds’
de-risking activity.
Deflation
in the Eurozone could cause underperformance across asset classes and investor
outflows, Fitch Ratings has said.
Weighting your benchmarks away from market capitalisation would reward portfolios with a much better Sharpe ratio, research has found.
A philosophical Gross considers why deflation is no longer acceptable, in his latest outlook for Janus Capital.
Improving life expectancy is expected to add billions to the amount companies must pay into their defined benefit plans.
Fixed income allocations are down as UK pension funds gain stability.
The UK insurer has moved to protect £1.35 billion of pension assets against pensioners living longer than expected.
An increasingly complex financial world does not call for
more complex portfolios, according to Idaho public pension’s CIO.
Markets may be back on a rollercoaster, but investors have
grown certain of success.