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Greatest Asset of a Pension… TIME!

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor 2Q’22

The Pension ROA is Plural…ROAs

Why Higher Interest Rates are Good for Pensions

How Bonds Can Enhance the ROA

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor 1Q’22

Pension Contributions - The Missing Asset

The Risk/Reward of Bonds

NIRS Innovative Pension Funding Strategies

2021

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor 4Q

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor 3Q

Discount Rates: ASC 842 Lease Accounting & ASC 715 Pensions

Maximize the Efficiency of the Asset Allocation

Pension Confusion - The Problem with Averages

Ryan ALM Pension Monitor 2Q

Pension Alert: Secure Funded Status!

Pension Solutions: Dollar Duration Matching + CDI (Enhanced Duration Matching and Cash Flow Matching)

Duration vs. Cash Flow Matching

Seven Flaws of Duration

Pension Quiz: Is it better to have 10% ROA or reduce Funding Costs by 10%? 

Insurance Buyout Annuities vs. Cash Flow Matching

2020

Response to: Presidential Memo on Pensions

The Flaws of Bond Indexes…Benchmark, Bogey or Bogus?

Ryan ALM Classic: How to Beat a Bond Index

Pension Discount Rates: ASC 715 (formerly FAS 158)

Best way to hedge pension inflation

Pension Risk Redefined

Chapter in Handbook of Fixed Income Securities: Cash Flow Matching

Cash Flow is King!

Buy Time!

Pension Solutions Series Part 4 - Performance Measurement

Pension Solutions Series Part 3 - Asset Exhaustion Test (AET)

Pension Solutions Series Part 2 - Liability Beta Portfolio™ (LBP)

No Alpha in bonds but…lots of Beta

Pension Solutions Series Part 1 - Custom Liability Index (CLI)

Pension LDI...Cash Flow Matching vs Duration Matching

The Fed’s Role in Creating the U.S. Pension Crisis

Pension Inflation =/= CPI

2019

Butch Lewis Act

The Role of Bonds in Pension Asset Allocation

Pension Asset Allocation – Strategic, Tactical, Responsive

Pension Confusion:  Present Value vs. Future Value

2018

April Fools: Misleading Indicators

2017

Becoming Liability Aware'

PPA Recommendation for Multiemployer Plans

2016

Synergy of ASC 715 + Custom Liability Index + Liability Beta Portfolio

Solutions for Public Pension Plans

2015

You Can’t Manage What You Don't Measure! by Kamp Consulting Solutions

Pension Discount Rates: FASB ASC 715

How to De-Risk a Pension Plan

The Smartest Beta

2014

Solutions for Pension Plans

2012

NEW PENSION RELIEF ACT - Friend or Foe