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— T.S. Eliot

2024

Pension Strategy: Play Football!

Pension Strategy to Reduce Funding Costs by 20%+

Pension Discount Rates: FASB, GASB, ASOP

Pension ROA - Trick or Treat?

Discount Rates: ASC 715 Pensions and 842 Lease Accounting

3Q’24 Pension Monitor

Pension Myth No 3: Plan Assets fund Gross Liabilities

Pension Myth No 2: Contributions Are NOT an Asset (in the Funded Ratio)

Pension Conundrum - Liquidity Risk

Pension Myth # 1: Earn the ROA… and All is Well

Pension Problem: Asset Only Focus

Things To Ask Your LDI Manager

The Smartest Beta

Ryan ALM, Inc. Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Pension Problem - Earning the ROA

Bag the Agg

Bond Index History - Kuhn Loeb Indexes

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor Q1 2024

LDI Benchmark

2023

Best Way to Duration Match Pension Liabilities? Cash Flow Matching

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor Q4 2023

Corporate Pension LDI Issues

Magnificent 7: Caveat Emptor!

The Evolution of Asset/Liability Management

Pension Solution: Calculated ROA

Death, Taxes, and More Treasuries

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor Q3 2023

Optimizing Asset Allocation

Pension Doctor: Generalist or Specialist?

Pension Confusion - Find the Liabilities

Liability Beta vs. Market Beta

How To De-risk a Pension

Ryan ALM Pension Alert Q2’23

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor YTD 2023

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor Q1’23

Cash Flow Matching Overview

Immunizing Pension Expense Volatility

How To Hedge Interest Rate Risk

Cash Flow Matching Benefits

Pension Quiz

ASOP 4 - Requires Fixed Income Market Discount Rates

Pension Risk Redefined

Pension Alert: Spread between ROA and Bonds Narrowest in 20+ Years

2022

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor 4Q’22

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor 3Q’22

Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Return

Greatest Asset of a Pension… TIME!

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor 2Q’22

The Pension ROA is Plural…ROAs

Why Higher Interest Rates are Good for Pensions

How Bonds Can Enhance the ROA

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor 1Q’22

Pension Contributions - The Missing Asset

The Risk/Reward of Bonds

NIRS Innovative Pension Funding Strategies

2021

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor 4Q

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor 3Q

Discount Rates: ASC 842 Lease Accounting & ASC 715 Pensions

Maximize the Efficiency of the Asset Allocation

Pension Confusion - The Problem with Averages

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor 2Q

Pension Alert: Secure Funded Status!

Pension Solutions: Dollar Duration Matching + CDI (Enhanced Duration Matching and Cash Flow Matching)

Duration vs. Cash Flow Matching

Seven Flaws of Duration

Pension Quiz: Is it better to have 10% ROA or reduce Funding Costs by 10%? 

Insurance Buyout Annuities vs. Cash Flow Matching

2020

Response to: Presidential Memo on Pensions

The Flaws of Bond Indexes…Benchmark, Bogey or Bogus?

Ryan ALM Classic: How to Beat a Bond Index

Pension Discount Rates: ASC 715 (formerly FAS 158)

Best way to hedge pension inflation

Pension Risk Redefined

Chapter in Handbook of Fixed Income Securities: Cash Flow Matching

Cash Flow is King!

Buy Time!

Pension Solutions Series Part 4 - Performance Measurement

Pension Solutions Series Part 3 - Asset Exhaustion Test (AET)

Pension Solutions Series Part 2 - Liability Beta Portfolio™ (LBP)

No Alpha in bonds but…lots of Beta

Pension Solutions Series Part 1 - Custom Liability Index (CLI)

Pension LDI...Cash Flow Matching vs Duration Matching

The Fed’s Role in Creating the U.S. Pension Crisis

Pension Inflation =/= CPI

2019

Butch Lewis Act

The Role of Bonds in Pension Asset Allocation

Pension Asset Allocation – Strategic, Tactical, Responsive

Pension Confusion:  Present Value vs. Future Value

2018

April Fools: Misleading Indicators

2017

Becoming Liability Aware'

PPA Recommendation for Multiemployer Plans

2016

Synergy of ASC 715 + Custom Liability Index + Liability Beta Portfolio

Solutions for Public Pension Plans

2015

You Can’t Manage What You Don't Measure! by Kamp Consulting Solutions

Pension Discount Rates: FASB ASC 715

How to De-Risk a Pension Plan

The Smartest Beta

2014

Solutions for Pension Plans

2012

NEW PENSION RELIEF ACT - Friend or Foe