DC plan sponsors also need to find innovative ways to communicate investment information as well as new strategies to help members balance risk and reward.
Economic volatility is causing many U.S. plan sponsors to worry about the sustainability of their plans, reports Mercer.
While volatility is an ordinary, and expected, part of financial markets, its latest incarnation has been extraordinary.
Financial institutions use the acronym ALM to describe what is now referred to as LDI (liability driven investing) by the pension industry. Why are there two acronyms, and how do they differ?
Morneau Shepell Ltd. has developed a risk management portfolio, designed to reduce volatility for pension plans.
Stay the course and remain calm. That’s the message from the Portfolio Management Association of Canada’s membership on how to best cope with current market volatility and global economic troubles.
Risk-return tradeoffs in Canada's stock market for 50 years.
Morneau Shepell has developed a pension risk index to illustrate the potential impact of pension plans on an organization’s financial results.
For the second time in the last four years and the third time in about a decade, investment/pension committees have to cope with the effects of extreme movement in the market value of their portfolios.
Integra Capital Ltd. has entered into an agreement with California-based Analytic Investors, LLC to represent Analytic’s global and U.S. low-volatility equity strategies in the Canadian institutional market.