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Decisions December 2008


Safe haven: Lehmans downfall changes the face of liability-driven investment

The collapse of Lehmans brings a new danger to pension funds: the risk that counterparties in swap deals could go under overnight. Is there a safe way to do liability-driven investment?

Love actuary? It's tough times ahead for the actuarial profession

The actuarial profession is likely to fall out of favour as pension schemes launch more and more litigation against their advisers

A year of living dangerously - now global crisis looks set to worsen

After a tumultuous year in the markets and the economy, recession looms almost everywhere. What’s left to go wrong in 2009?

You have been warned - now is the time to examine DC schemes

Transferring from DB to DC schemes may help shed the financial risk of final salary, but it will not absolve companies from their responsibility to tell employees what they are getting into

Everyone's a winner: the best way to transfer out of final salary schemes

Offering transfer packages to high-earning employees in order to reduce final salary pensions liabilities is dangerous. But get it right and it’s a win-win situation for all involved

Work to live: Increasing longevity and the strain on investment schemes

The fact we are all living longer is a good thing. But increasing longevity is putting a strain on investment strategy, forcing trustees to look at their schemes’ mortality risks in more detail

Taking stocks: Finance chiefs have a lot to answer for

Huge pay, questionable competence. Answers are needed about the role played by some of the FDs and CFOs at the most damaged financial institutions

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