By: Ron Ryan, CFA, CEO, Ryan ALM, Inc. Most pension investments are focused on earning Alpha… defined as a positive return difference between the investment and its objective (usually an index benchmark). Each asset class and its subsets seem to...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. The four senior team members at Ryan ALM, Inc. have collectively more than 160 years of pension/investment experience. We've lived through an incredible array of markets during our tenures. We have also...

By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc. We are pleased to once again provide you with an update on the PBGC's activity related to the ARPA legislation. During the previous week there were four plans that submitted applications. Each...

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 -...