As of 3 January 2022, Jorg Sunderman is COO and deputy CEO of sustainable asset manager ACTIAM, which was recently acquired by industry peer Cardano Group.
Liquidity management is becoming increasingly important for pension funds. The best way to improve liquidity management is to set up a treasury function within the matching portfolio.
Matching portfolios are supposed to match, that’s all. The simpler you make them, the higher your chance of success. Use any time you save to achieve excess returns in your return portfolio.
Reducing the risk of benefit cuts and non-indexation will introduce a sense of calm into the pension fund boardroom. Dynamic balance sheet policies put this at your fingertips.
Eleven years after the fall of Lehman Brothers, crisis indicators are deep in the red. This is the time for pension funds to resist the temptations of taking too much risk. A safe haven is paramount.
Financial market developments are completely unpredictable. Scenario thinking will help you identify real risks and tailor your investment strategy to what is actually happening.
Dynamic balance sheet policies reduce the risk of benefit cuts and non-indexation. However, by no means all funds pursue this rational risk policy, because it feels counterintuitive.