The Blind Side: Managing downside contribution risk in corporate defined benefit plans

Feb 28, 2010

 
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The Blind Side: Managing downside contribution risk in corporate defined benefit plans

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This paper concludes that conventional asset-liability models seriously under-state downside contribution risk. And some of today's more popular strategies, including de-risking and fully dynamic asset allocation, in our view do not provide the hoped-for benefit in reducing such risk. The authors, however, propose a comprehensive framework that may not only help plan sponsors manage downside contribution risk, but manage median contributions and pension expense at the same time.

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Abdullah Z. Sheikh, FIA, FSA


Director of Research, Strategic Investment Advisory Group (SIAG)
 

 

 
 

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