By: Russ Kamp, Managing Director, Ryan ALM, Inc.

We are pleased to share with you the Ryan ALM Newsletter for the second quarter of 2022. Despite a very rough start to the year for the capital markets, the present value of pension liabilities (based on an average 12-year duration) underperformed the “average” asset allocation by roughly 2.2%. As a result, Pension America once again witnessed an improving funded status. For pension plans that use GASB for their accounting standard, this outperformance on the part of plan assets versus plan liabilities may be hidden from view.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us with any of your questions regarding asset/liability management or go to RyanALM.com for our thoughts on a variety of pension-related issues.