With an uncertain global economic outlook and financial market volatility, it has become increasingly important for institutional investors to protect their pension fund assets against potentially
With an uncertain global economic outlook and financial market volatility, it has become increasingly important for institutional investors to protect their pension fund assets against potentially severe losses. This is why there has been a substantial shift in the last few years by institutional investors to pursue LDI strategies.
According to the SEI Global Quick Poll, the percentage of pensions employing a Liability Driven Investment strategy has nearly tripled over the past three years from 20% in 2007 to 54% in 2009 and nearly 70% said the recent market volatility has increased the value of LDI.
After a year off while we watched the financial crisis unfold, the 6th annual Liability Driven Investment Europe, taking place on 25th-26th January 2011 at the Okura Hotel in Amsterdam is back even better than before. Bringing together the entire institutional investment chain including plan sponsors, pension trustees, regulators and carefully selected asset management houses to discuss cutting-edge strategies and to ask the important questions: From how well LDI strategies are responding to market conditions and active vs. passive management to whether alternatives can be deployed in an LDI format and finally show how Solvency II will affect this market.
