long-term nominal bonds – Benefits Canada.com https://www.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:16:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 Bank of England intervened in bond market to protect DB pension plans: letter https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/fixed-income/bank-of-england-intervened-in-bond-market-to-protect-db-pension-plans-letter/ Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:30:14 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=128215 The Bank of England’s decision to intervene in the long-dated government bond market protected defined benefit pension plans with liability-driven investment strategies, according to a central bank official. “In practice, the move in [long-term bond] yields last week threatened to exceed the size of the cushion for many LDI funds, requiring them to either sell […]

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]]> Pension funds playing defence amid coronavirus crisis https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/cir-news/pension-funds-playing-defence-amid-coronavirus-crisis/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/cir-news/pension-funds-playing-defence-amid-coronavirus-crisis/#respond Wed, 02 Dec 2020 04:32:11 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/pension-funds-playing-defence-amid-coronavirus-crisis/ Despite several bumps in the decade since the 2008/09 financial crisis, the swift and brutal crash in global equity prices when the coronavirus was declared a pandemic sent pension investors reaching for their playbooks to implement defensive strategies to mitigate the damage. “People have worked very hard at just acting on the set strategies that […]

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