The Near Future of Pension Risk Transfers

Companies are taking a nuanced approach in deciding how much pension risk to retain, and what to hand off to a third party.

By Hilary Johnson | May 24, 2018 at 01:14 PM

FedEx Corp.'s $6 billion pension risk transfer $25 billion in liabilities from General Motors FedEx news Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) pension risk transfer decisions a nuanced approach to pension risk management Pension Investing for the Long Term: An Alternative to Risk Transfer

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Analysis

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2 A New Payment Risk: Tariffs and Supply-Chain Madness

3 Corporate-Bond Trading Costs Surged amid Market Tumult

4 Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Lead Bank Borrowing Spree

5 The Fed’s Deepest Tariff Fear

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