The application of risk-based strategies for capturing lower volatility may be viewed as more appropriate for a long-term investment strategy than for short-term risk reduction, according to a MSCI whitepaper.
Investment firms must do a better job of being both 'asset gatherers' and 'investors' to build and sustain a business, according to Janie Kass of Margolis Advisory Group.
A prominent European risk and liability management specialist has left one of the market-leading firms to launch his own venture in the investment sector.
Once again, underfunded liabilities is the most important risk factor facing US corporate defined benefit plans, according to the 2012 MetLife US Pension Risk Behavior Index survey.
Solvency II would hurt equity markets as well as force the closure of remaining defined benefit pension funds, a pan-European employers and retirement industry group has claimed.
Liabilities have outpaced the growth in assets for the sixteen publicly listed US corporations with pension liabilities over $20 billion, research by Russell Investments has shown.
