US - Public pension plans are being allowed to 'mask' their true funding status and should be forced to adopt the same accounting standards as corporate plans, asset managers have said.
Norman Ehrentreich, liquid assets sector manager for RiverSource Investments, who researched the prevalence of liability driven investment (LDI) among US funds, said some accounting mechanisms used...
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