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Pension De-Risking Outlook for Canada The Role of Reinsurance

Defined benefit pension plans are excellent retirement savings vehicles for employees but can submit employers to significant risks, which are usually outside the scope of their core expertise and mission.

An index isn't a fiduciary — and six other concerns about the push for passive
Passive investments based on market-cap-weighted indexes have an undeniable appeal.
Asset allocation analysis for insurers

In recent years, the Insurance Group at Wellington Management has seen a growing number of insurers express an interest in undertaking a strategic asset allocation (AA) study.

An index isn't a duciary — and six other concerns about the push for passive

“It Is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding It.” This quote from Upton Sinclair might resonate with proponents of passive investing who nd themselves faced with another argument for active management, written by a commentator whose salary is indeed paid for by active management.

How scale, slow growth, MBAs, and regulation are shrinking the stock market

One Of the challenges Of being a bOttOm-up investOr is that there are always mOre cOmpanies than yOu can pOssibly research. This is why, in an attempt to help my colleagues, I have tried to straddle micro and macro (call it mezza), keeping an eye on the aggre- gate equity markets and their dynamics as a subject on their own to see if there are things happening that are strange or noteworthy.

Asset allocation analysis for insurers

In recent years, the Insurance Group at Wellington Management has seen a growing number of insurers express an interest in undertaking a strategic asset allocation (AA) study. The low-yield environment of the past few years, along with the core xed income-centric nature of insurance portfolios and a widely anticipated future rise in interest rates, all seem to be contributing to this surge in interest.