By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. I hope that you and your families enjoyed a Happy Fourth of July weekend. My family and I enjoyed some traditional American activities this past weekend as we took in a Mets...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. The first six months of 2022 have come and gone, but not before leaving some destruction in its wake! However, before we dive into the numbers, we want to wish you and...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. My two sessions have been completed at the IFEBP's Advanced Trustees and Administrators conference in Seattle, WA. It is always a pleasure to share the podium with Ian Jones and Troy Brown...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Regular readers of my blog will know that I've often written about Carol, a hard-working union (Local 805) member whose dignified retirement dreams were crushed when her fund filed for benefit relief...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Buying the dip is always a challenging objective. Given the current inflationary environment and the goal of the Federal Reserve to conquer inflation, buying this dip may be premature. A huge negative...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc . I've recently seen questions raised about the recent interest rate increase in the Fed Fund's Rate and the potential impact that has on the pension rescue through ARPA. I'm happy to...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Although it seems like everyone is busy at this time of year, the PBGC bucked that trend with little activity once again. During this past week, there were no SFA applications either...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Many pension systems lack a formal liquidity policy. As a result, they often ask their custodians to sweep cash (residual cash among managers, dividends, interest, and distributions) from wherever they can find...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Either the Summer doldrums have set in as it relates to the PBGC and ARPA activity or everyone is just waiting on the Final, Final Rules to be approved and published. There...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. Vanguard is out with their annual survey results accumulated from their millions of account holders. To listen to many in our retirement industry, you'd think that everything is just hunky-dory. They often...