A Stronger Union: Addressing the Unique Investment Challenges of Multiemployer Defined Benefit Plans
Adaptive and sophisticated strategies are necessary to serve the unique features, constraints, and needs of multiemployer plans. In this note, we explore some of the key challenges that many multiemployer plans face, discuss how to invest in light of these challenges, and provide thoughts on governance and the overall role of the investment advisor in the multiemployer context.
April 2017
403(b) Plan Fiduciary Oversight
In an increasingly complex landscape, the fiduciary management of robust 403(b) plans has become more challenging than ever.
November 2016
Hedge Fund-ing the Pension Deficit: The Case for UK Schemes
Select hedge funds have provided attractive long-term returns with reduced equity beta and can be integral to pension investment strategies.
October 2016
Don’t Forget the Credit Spread!
While corporate plan sponsors are keenly aware of interest rate risk within their defined benefit plans, few fully appreciate the complex and significant risk posed by credit spreads.
October 2016
Hedge Fund-ing the Pension Deficit
Select hedge funds have provided attractive long-term returns with reduced equity beta and can be integral to pension investment strategies.
June 2016
Private Investments: Filling a Pension’s Return Void
Well-diligenced private investments in a skillfully constructed portfolio are important growth drivers that have helped pension funds deliver superior performance and increased the probability of meeting or exceeding long-term required returns.
October 2015
Navigating the Diversified Growth Fund Maze
Diversified growth funds (DGFs) have garnered significant attention and assets—particularly amongst UK defined benefit pension schemes—as a less volatile source of long-term growth. DGFs can be valuable tools for pension portfolio management, but only if trustees understand what they are buying and how it fits into the context of the total portfolio. The simple bifurcation of the available products into traditional and absolute return strategies can be a starting point for trustees to help make sense of the market and set appropriate risk/return expectations across different market environments.
October 2015
The Forgotten 70%: Strategies for Pension Plans Accruing Benefits
Plans with active participants need a holistic, flexible risk budgeting approach—not a simple glide path.
July 2015
Connect with the Retirement, Insurance & Government Practice
Greg Smyth
Managing Director, Client Solutions—Retirement, Insurance & Government Practice
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