Lessons in LDI: It can’t be managed on autopilot
Chaos in the UK gilt market has put LDI strategies under unprecedented pressure. Pension funds need to re-evaluate their hedging levels before the BofE removes support.
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Warnings increase as rising rates puts LDI under strain
The number of warning voices increases as rising interest rates puts pressure on LDI strategies, forcing more pension funds to sell assets to maintain leverage levels.
HSBC Pension’s innovative DC offering
HSBC Bank (UK) Pension Scheme is an innovative hybrid fund that incorporates a climate tilt for its global equities default in DC, while in the DB portion it remains focused on de-risking.
Investors need to rethink operating model
A neat little story of investment flows, asset allocation changes, and relationship and service demands is emerging from the third annual Top1000funds.com/Casey Quirk Global Fiduciary CIO Survey. If you’re a CIO of an asset owner what that means is more control but also more responsibilities and the demands of more internal resources. For managers it
How to hedge long-term inflation-linked liabilities without inflation-linked instruments
Given the capacity constraints on local inflation-linked bond markets, what are other options for hedging long-term inflation-linked liabilities? This is a question Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has been deliberating on as it supports an academic chair at EDHEC-Risk Institute with a focus on analysing the design of novel forms of liability-hedging portfolios that do not
Investors ignore liability matching at their peril
Two high profile pension funds, ATP of Denmark and HOOPP of Canada, have been very successful in managing their assets in two distinct portfolios. But the practice of fund separation, a portion of the portfolio for liability hedging and another for alpha generation, is not common in pension management. It should be. For these two
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