By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. We are pleased to share with you the Ryan ALM, Inc. 2Q'23 Newsletter . As usual, you will find unique perspectives on a variety of asset/liability measures. In addition, we share with...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Yogi Berra may or may not have actually said the words in the title of this post, which were supposedly uttered during the New York Mets pennant run in 1973, but that...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. As I mentioned in a previous post, I spent the last three days attending and speaking at the latest Opal Public Fund Summit in Newport, RI. I always find these events to...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. We are pleased to share with you the Ryan ALM, Inc. Pension Monitor for YTD 2023. As you will see, the differences among public and corporate funding results for the first 6...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. I've been enjoying my time at the Opal Public Funds Summit East conference in Newport, RI. Day two has been illuminating, especially as it relates to real estate and the lack of...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. The PBGC didn't let a little holiday get in the way of some ARPA activity last week. According to the terrific spreadsheet that they update and provide weekly, three more plans received...

By: Russ Kamp Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. As a follow-up to the blog from Friday , Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies and Transamerica Institute released a retirement preparedness study this past Thursday. None of the four generations studied -...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, I nc. The great migration from defined benefit (DB) plans to defined contribution (DC) plans has been underway for roughly four decades within the private sector. How's it working out for the millions...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. I recently produced the following on LinkedIn.com. What PIVOT? As we've been consistently saying, economies don't roll into recessions with full employment and wage growth >4%. Recent economic releases continue to support...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Happy Fourth of July! Thank you to all who have served our nation to provide us with the freedoms that we enjoy, but often take for granted. With respect to the PBGC's...