By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. It may be rainy and somewhat gloomy in New Jersey this morning, but there is good news to report regarding ARPA and the PBGC's implementation of this critically important legislation. Two more...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Managing a pension plan is not an easy task, but it doesn't have to be as challenging as it currently seems to be. Why? For one thing, pension plans need to understand...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. You may recall that on July 14, 2023, I penned the post "It Ain't Over Until it is Over" in which I covered the subject of rising oil prices at that time...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. I've never been a boxer, but I can certainly appreciate the instructions to stay away from your opponent in the last or later rounds when you have the match won on points...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Football season has begun in earnest, so you can't blame the PBGC if their activity level was not quite up to the pace that they'd been operating under. For the week ending...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. I suspect that most of us have no idea that today, September 8, 2023, is National 401(k) Day. This day is recognized every year on the Friday following Labor Day. The day...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. For us in the Northeast, the start of September marks the beginning of another school year for our K-12 students. We hope that your summer has been wonderful. For the PBGC, the...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. August 2023, proved to be another challenging month for return-seeking fixed income managers and their strategies when using the BB Aggregate index as the proxy, as the index declined -4% (-3.98% if...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Those in attendance at a recently concluded industry conference voted unanimously that securing the promised benefits was the “primary” objective in managing a DB pension plan. It was great to get such...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. We hope that your "last" week of summer is a good one. Can't believe that Labor Day is almost upon us. The PBGC has been laboring, as they continue to work through...