Pension Risk Matters
This blawg serves as a resource for trustees, board members, consultants, money managers, attorneys and regulators who want to explore important ideas about pension risk issues and best practices. Topics include hedge funds, private equity, valuation, derivatives, fees, fiduciary risk, governance, litigation, consultants and trading controls.
Author: Susan M. Mangiero is president and CEO of Pension Governance in Trumbull, Conn. Her book, Risk Management for Pensions, Endowments, and Foundations, looks at risk management and valuation issues, with an emphasis on fiduciary responsibility and best practices.
Blawg Related Categories: Benefits/ERISA • Consultant • Economics
Recent Posts from Pension Risk Matters
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New Study Addresses Pension Risk Management Gaps
At a time of great market turmoil, plan participants, shareholders and taxpayers want to know whether their retirement plans are in good hands. Risk is truly a four-letter word unless plan sponsors can demonstrate…
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Pensions to Hedge Funds: Lock Me Up
As markets tumble, hedge fund investors are asking for longer lock-up provisions in order to preserve their investment. Say what? The reasoning goes like this. If an investor can redeem, and does in fact ask to…
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New Study Suggests That Few Are Ready to Retire
According to a new study, retiring at age 67 may not be in the cards for many individuals, partly by choice. Tracking desires and expectations of American workers, a newly created Sun Life Financial UnretirementSM Index suggests that…
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Debt Clock Runs Out of Numbers
According to the Telegraph.co.uk website, the U.S. National Debt Clock has too few digits to measure the current state of affairs. The clock's owner, the Durst Organization, is expected to add a pair of…
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Golden State Asks Public Pension Plan to Help
According to "California officials hope for easing of credit crunch" (October 4, 2008), Los Angeles Times reporters Marc Lifsher and Evan Halper paint a gloomy financial picture for this giant state. They explain that Governor…
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Reader's Comment About Retirement Fallout
In response to this blog's September 23, 2008 post entitled "Retirement Fallout - Breaking the Bank, Piggybank That Is," we received a link to an opinion piece, published in The Baltimore Examiner. Sent by editor Frank…
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Reader's Comments about Demographics
Mr. Mark Steyn, author of the popular paperback book, America Alone, responds to the recent post about changing demographics. Read Mark's comments: << Sue, the problem isn't rapid aging, it is a rapid decline in fertility. Before…
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World Economic Forum Report - Demographic Gaia
According to Wikipedia, the Gaia Hypothesis refers to an ecology that inextricably ties together elements of Earth and the biosphere. With respect to world population trends, the World Economic Forum embraces the notion that…
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Risk Oversight and the Boardroom
Ms. Alexandra Reed Lajoux, with the National Association of Corporate Directors ("NACD"), responds to "Pension Funds Ask - "Who is Responsible for Risk Oversight? " as follows: "New appointees face a steep learning curve that exposes a…
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Reader's Comment About Transparency
Wendy Fried writes the following in response to the September 26, 2008 post entitled "Would Better Disclosure Have Helped WaMu Shareholders?" "It's pretty hard to say without knowing what really pushed WaMu over the edge. If…