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Pension Plan LDI: How to Avoid Pitfalls from Long Bonds, Protect Against Low Rates, and Benefit from Rate Increases
River and Mercantile Dec. 11, 2020 "To the extent sponsors have been holding long bonds, they've generally done a very good job of protecting funded status when rates fall (which has been fairly common). If rates increase though, the benefit to a pension plan may be muted due to these investments. In a period of historically low interest rates where many are optimistic about rate increases, swaptions present an opportunity to protect against interest rate declines while still being able to benefit from interest rate increases." |
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