US - Experts claim the expectations of US municipal pension plan sponsors may be unrealistic after a Greenwich Associates survey showed they believed their investment portfolios would outperform the market by 146 basis points annually over the next five years.
Carl Hess, global head of investment consulting, Watson Wyatt, said the current funding practice by nearly all municipalities was to assume the current investment mix was static, and that continued...
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