Leveraged LDI saved schemes billions, committee hears

Strategy has helped schemes reduce deficits and require lower employer contributions

Jonathan Stapleton
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Kerrin Rosenberg: Leveraged LDI has protected schemes against inflation and interest rates but also against asset diminution
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Kerrin Rosenberg: Leveraged LDI has protected schemes against inflation and interest rates but also against asset diminution

Leveraged liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies have made defined benefit schemes billions of pounds better off, the Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) has heard.

In the second session of the second formal meeting of the WPC's inquiry into defined benefit (DB) pensions with LDI - held this morning (7 December) - the committee heard evidence from Cardano chie...

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