BST North American Summit 2013: Liability-Driven Investment Gaining Mainstream Tech Traction

Many of the buy-side firms in question are defined-benefit pension plans that, by virtue of the payout they guarantee to retirees, are compelled to hold assets sufficient to meet those long-term liabilities at any given time. But following the financial crisis in 2008, some of those organizations were unable to sufficiently hedge their exposures, or align information from their externally contracted managers along with their own, to shifts in the market. Many were left in a perilous position and