Corporate pension funds have more assets in bonds than equities for the first time in a decade, a sharp shift from just 5 years ago when the amount in stocks doubled those in fixed income. "A lot of lessons have been learned," says a strategist. Markets have a way of doing that. Will new lessons be taught in coming years? [View news story]
It will be very challenging for pension funds to meet benefit obligations while real interest rates are negative. They will either have to put up with unsustainably low rates in lower risk securities, or hunt around in the riskier assets for yield enhancement.
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Thanks for the comment Freddy, we are very interested in how people are looking at central bank activity in terms of forecasting future trends. You're welcome to use the index data
Corporate pension funds have more assets in bonds than equities for the first time in a decade, a sharp shift from just 5 years ago when the amount in stocks doubled those in fixed income. "A lot of lessons have been learned," says a strategist. Markets have a way of doing that. Will new lessons be taught in coming years? [View news story]
More bad news for the pension industry.
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There were a few others too, see: www.centralbanknews.in...