Description: This 1981 discussion session focuses on current trends in the investment of pension assets.

Description: August 2012 issue of (RL) Asset/Liability Watch

Description: September issue of RL Asset Liability Watch, September 2012

Description: The investment risk taken by a pension fund comprises strategic risk and active risk. This paper discusses the relative merits of these two types of risk to the pension fund, possible rationales for the levels of strategic and active risk typically adopted mechanisms for capturing manager skill without taking on equity risk, and issues in setting liability-based benchmarks for investment managers

Description: RL Asset Liability Watch, September 2012 issue

Description: July 2012 issue of (RL) Bond Market Watch

Description: This presentation discusses asset/liability management and developing investment policies. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 2.

Description: A survey of available derivatives and a description of how they can be used in pension portfolios is presented. How derivatives can help investment performance, whether derivatives are appropriate for their pension assets, and the special risks associated with derivatives are also examined. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.

Description: This article explains why and how maturing defined benefit pension plans become increasingly unstable if they maintain asset mix policies that embody material mismatch risk between plan assets and liabilities. The implication is that asset depletion is a risk that mature plans should take very seriously. This means redesign should be a priority for pension plans facing this risk. From the Pension Section News, October 2011, Issue No. 75.

Description: This discussion takes an in-depth exploration of the valuation of assets in relation to retirement plans and pension trust assets. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.