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DB plan sponsors urged to reconsider asset allocations amid interest rate uncertainty: expert

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:30:23 +0000

The uncertainty about the direction interest rates will move in 2023 means defined benefit pension plan sponsors should be reconsidering their asset allocation strategies, says Ben Ukonga, principal at Mercer. “I don’t think anybody knows when, or if, interest rates will come down. If [inflation] comes down, the Bank of Canada’s likely to stop increasing […]

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Asset-Liability Matching – Real Estate and Commodities

mschmit — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:42:41 +0000

Since real estate and commodities can help deal with inflation risk, the paper makes some worthwhile points for plan sponsors.

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Risk/Reward Tradeoff Skewed to the Greenback

mschmit — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:00:18 +0000

Is the U.S. dollar worth it?

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What the Indexes Don’t See

mschmit — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:07:04 +0000

Passive investing, in the form of investable indexes, is gaining more and more converts. Last month, it was reported that Norway’s Government Pension Fund was taken to task by the country’s finance ministry because its active managers underperformed their benchmarks. But are those benchmarks rational? A new paper from Russell Investments suggests what many active […]

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