This Q&A focuses on the recent appointment of Dr. Marshall Stocker as Director of Country Research within the Global Income team and what this means for the firm’s EM debt clients
Deficit contributions and favourable asset returns in recent years have led to improved funding positions and our analysis suggests buying out scheme liabilities with an insurer is now a realistic medium-term goal for the majority of FTSE 350 companies...
As monetary policy seems almost exhausted, could fiscal easing kick-start growth and take us out of the low rate, low growth environment that we have been in for 10 years?
2018 was a testing year for master trust investment performance. Michael Ambery looks at how different strategies fared during a difficult 12 months
The default investment strategy of master trusts is critical to their success. AllianceBernstein’s David Hutchins shares his views of best practice
Professional Pensions takes a look at how the master trust market is evolving in light of the authorisation regime and asks what the future could hold
Although the focus of CDI is often on meeting assumed liability outflows, in reality it is all about securing the asset inflows.
Irrespective of size, funding level or maturity, defined benefit (DB) pension plans have one common goal: to pay members' pensions in full and on time.