PRICE PRESSURES
Responding to high inflation
We discuss five proactive strategies defined benefit plans can use to help protect themselves from interest rate volatility.
Rising interest rates may soon test the upper limits of relief corridors for pension plans, with no impact of further increases on plan funding targets.
Despite the attention on how DB pensions have managed higher interest rates and other adversities, we should also be potentially just as concerned for DC schemes.
Understand the market from previous publications of the Corporate Pension Funding Index.
Our study of medical inflation in 19 countries found that insurers have limited exposure, except for Israel, where options to raise premiums are limited.
Since 2020, rising inflation and increasing Treasury rates—now at their highest levels since before the 2008 recession—have prompted insurers to adjust their asset allocations, taking advantage of improved yields from safer private and fixed-income asset classes.
Evaluation of the implications of a change in extrapolation method at higher interest rate levels
With rising rates and high inflation, insurers worldwide need robust frameworks and nimbleness in the once slow moving and stable world of life insurance.
The radical change in the interest rate environment has many implications for CEE insurers, presenting challenges and opportunities not seen for years.
After a decade where society grew accustomed to annual inflation rates lower than 3%....
We utilize cash flow testing methodology to highlight potential management actions and modeling considerations to help reduce the need for additional reserves.
Recent years have shaken assumptions about global inflation. Do the ways in which actuaries work need to change? And do we have enough inflation in our climate scenarios?
Using updated industry data, we shed light on questions about housing demand and supply, higher interest rates and affordability, and how prices may trend.
New market conditions are challenging investors, but there are ways to manage the risks.
