Liability-driven investment (LDI)
Still Trussed up: UK pensions confront fallout from LDI crisis
Trustees and consultants are making risky trade-offs as interim guidance increases the cost of hedging
Central banks grapple with market backstop design
BoE’s Hauser and Fed’s Logan discuss pros and cons of repos vs asset purchases
Managers want power to cut hedges after UK LDI crisis
Pensions trustees baulk at requests for right to reduce exposure to LDI funds “carte blanche”
Pension funds may sue managers ‘for making hedging a liability’
Finger of blame for LDI crisis is also being pointed at fiduciaries and even the schemes themselves
The final countdown: Europe’s pension funds get ready to clear
With clearing exemption due to end next June, EU funds try to learn from UK’s LDI mistakes
UK pension funds hand over more assets to LDI managers
Transfer of assets is a pre-emptive move to avoid repeat of September’s collateral crunch, trustees say
Pensions regulator plays down LDI risk to EU
Eiopa doubts UK gilt market chaos could occur to same degree in Europe
UK pension funds rush to dirty CSAs
Fearing margin pain once BoE gilt-buying ends, funds fast-track revisions to post gilts and corporate bonds
Pensions eye collateral facilities to buffer market turmoil
Arrangements would allow funds to exchange riskier assets like corporate bonds for cash or gilts
Pensions with other LDI investments quicker to make margin calls
Columbia Threadneedle says funds invested in internal strategies moved collateral immediately, but outside transfers took time
Pension funds foresaw margin meltdown (a decade ago)
Years of warnings went largely unheeded. Questions may now spread to post-crisis clearing and margining project
UK pensions hit with £100m margin calls as gilts and sterling slide
At least three LDI managers request emergency capital as others consider unwinds to avoid default
Could a cold collateral winter be coming for pension plans?
UK LDIs passed an early test from rising rates, but margin call pressure is mounting
UK funds fall out of love with sterling swaps
Lower yields, Libor transition and margin rules help make gilt repo the desired hedging tool for LDI funds
Callable repack frenzy opens up new options market in Europe
Demand driven mainly by French life insurers looking for alternatives to low-yielding sovereign bonds
Canada pension fund Hoopp goes cool on bonds
$70bn investor rethinks LDI strategy to take into account paltry yield from fixed income
Mega-hedges and generational strife at PGGM
Buy-side risk survey: for Dutch pension giant, battle between young and old shaped response to March mayhem
Aberdeen head of structured solutions departs
De Roeck considering Libor discontinuation consultancy launch
Rates decline sinks Allianz’s Solvency II ratio
Market impacts take 11 percentage points off ratio in first six months of 2019
Generali pivots from corporate bonds
Company debt makes up 31.6% of life insurance investment portfolio; 28.1% of property and casualty portfolio
In hunt for yield, US insurers turn to illiquid assets
Mortgage exposures grow 72% in eight years since 2010
Sterling RFR group urges Eiopa to end mismatch on rates
In letter, group points to discrepancy in requirement to use Libor-linked rates as Libor fades out
LGIM’s head of LDI departs
Simon Wilkinson to spend time away from industry; Guy Whitby-Smith takes on duties
Swaps basis leaps as LDI funds prep for Libor’s death
Gap between 30-year Libor and Sonia swaps surges 36% in three weeks