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Press Release: Pension plan sponsors focus on controlling risks

Majority say they will implement liability-driven investing: Vanguard survey

By Other Sources | Updated on March 02, 2011

VALLEY FORGE, PA (February 24, 2011)–Pension plan sponsors appear more concerned about risk and plan costs than returns, and are managing risk by making changes to plan design and investment strategy, according to a new Vanguard survey.

“Given the current economic, market and regulatory landscapes, we expected that plan sponsors would be focusing more on risk,” said Kimberly Stockton, an analyst in Vanguard Investment Strategy Group and author of Survey of Defined Benefit Plan Sponsors, 2010. “But surprisingly, sponsors’ concern about risk is much greater than their concern about return. The focus on returns would likely have been much higher during the pre-pension-crisis years and a bull market.”

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