Market Moves
US Corporate Pension Funded Status Improves After Equity’s Strong April
Liabilities also increased in the month, and while watching Fed rates closely, more pension plans neared full funding.
Tag: Pensions
Pensions
Corporate Pension Funding Ratios See Slight Increase in February
Volatile equity market performance mostly offset the impact of lower liability values in February, resulting in a modest boost in corporate pension funded ratios.
Pensions
Corporate Pension Funding Posts Small Gain in January
Lower effective yields on 10- and 30-year Treasury bonds, and on corporate credit, decreased the discount rate, offsetting strong equity gains.
Newsmakers
LACERA Issues RFP for System’s Real Assets Emerging Manager Program
The $67.6 billion pension system is seeking a discretionary separate account manager to implement the Real Assets Emerging Manager Program.
Pensions
U.S. State, Local Public Pensions Saw Funding Statuses Fall in 2022
The Equable Institute recently released its year-end update to State of Pensions 2022, covering the funding status of public pensions across the country.
Newsmakers
Teachers’ Retirement System of Illinois Issues RFP for Investment Consultant
The $60.7 billion pension system is seeking a firm to assist in investment decisions after RVK’s 5-year term expires this year.
Pensions
Poor December Equity Performance Reduces Pension Funding Status
Corporate pension funding statuses marginally retreat from record funding levels to end 2022.
Pensions
WTW Backs Hibernation, OCIO, ESG and Diversification in Recommendations for 2023
Report outlines seven moves pension funds should be making in an uncertain economic climate.
Pensions
Strong November for Equities Yields Lower Pension Funding
Most gauges of U.S. corporate pension health remained fully funded in November, even as they dropped from higher levels earlier in the year, data showed.
Pensions
OECD Pensions Outlook 2022: Developing Asset-Backed Pension Systems
Latest worldwide pensions review discusses how to develop and strengthen asset-backed pensions and makes recommendations on governance and fee structures.
Newsmakers
NBA Approves Institutional Investors’ Passive Ownership Stakes in Teams
Investors including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and endowments can own passive stakes in NBA franchises, following a 2020 decision to welcome private equity firms.
Pensions
Higher Interest Rates Put LDI Derivative Usage into Question
LDI strategies allow for passive equity to be replaced by holding ‘cash’ and synthetic equity instruments. But with better funding statuses, are pensions’ derivative positions less necessary?
Dauntless Allocators Stick With Calamitous Cryptocurrency
Institutions keep their toeholds in bitcoin and others amid epic market slide.
Regulation
European Pension Regulator Launches Climate Risk Stress Test for 2022
The regulator imagines what will be the effects of a climate shock to pension funds’ balance sheets.
Manager Selection
What Will Differentiate the Best Alternatives Investors in the Next 10 Years?
We ask Anton Pil, global head of alternatives for JPMorgan Chase & Co.