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Global pension plans reveal top concerns

14 January 2010

Institutional investors worldwide rank the current funding status of their pension plans, risk management, and continued volatility as the most significant challenges to achieving their future goals.

Read more: Pyramis Global Advisors pension plans

Institutional investors worldwide rank the current funding status of their pension plans, risk management and continued volatility as the most significant challenges to achieving their future goals, according to a new Pyramis Global Advisors Pulse Poll of defined benefit (DB) pension plans.

One of the ways plans will meet these challenges will be through active equity management with the vast majority of pension plan sponsors believing that actively managed equity strategies will deliver returns in excess of their benchmarks in the future.

The 2009 fourth quarter Pyramis Global Pension Pulse Poll surveyed key decision makers at 427 corporate and public pension plans in 12 countries who cumulatively manage in excess of $1 trillion USD in assets. Pension plan sponsors in...


 

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