Tag: Risk Mgmt

April 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – More Americans realize they aren’t on track to meet retirement income needs, according to Northwestern...

April 30, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The attractiveness of pension annuitization, as tracked by Dietrich & Associates’ Pension Risk Transfer Index,...

April 28, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Before de-risking their plans, defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors need to fully understand the risks.

April 23, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Some defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors are reluctant to transfer liabilities to an insurer, saying...

April 21, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The funded status of corporate defined benefit (DB) pension plans has been experiencing unprecedented volatility...

April 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) — Retirement plan participants are showing strong interest in target-date strategies, but one provider says retirement...

April 11, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ongoing market turbulence and lingering low interest rates have created formidable challenges for pension plan...

April 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Market conditions like those seen in 2013 benefited those plan sponsors that had not yet...

April 10, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The estimated cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, of a U.S. retiree annuity purchase...

April 8, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – It sounds like the ever-elusive free lunch—an investment strategy that reduces the potential for major...

April 7, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Lincoln Financial Group has launched its Presidential Managed Risk Moderate Fund.

April 2, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Nearly half of defined benefit plan respondents (47%) to a recent survey for Prudential indicate...

April 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors and retirement committees have been examining their pension plans with the objective of...

April 1, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Liability-driven investing (LDI) can be a great choice for defined benefit plans, but the strategy...

March 27, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Global markets are well past the point where investors can ignore the sustainability profile of...

March 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The first quarter of 2014 saw very light pension rebalancing flows, but liability-driven investing (LDI)...

March 26, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - One can’t talk about pensions today without discussing de-risking.

March 20, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – For the United States, the estimated cost, as a percentage of accounting liability, of a...

March 19, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even the best laid plans can go off track, and this is true for defined...

March 14, 2014 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – New mortality tables for defined benefit (DB) pension plans will increase pension liabilities, according to...