The difficulty of institutions that need cash for payment have grown acute during the chalk-brained professors’ zero-interest-rate pogrom. Insurance companies are one victim, pension plans another. Looking specifically at defined-benefit pension plans, the plan sponsor (corporation, maybe, or municipality) is obligated to pay current and future retirees a specific dollar amount from now until a spouses’ death.
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Byron Wien, vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory Partners, today published his list of surprises for 2012 — following a 25-year tradition he began while still chief U.S. investment strategist at Morgan Stanley.
Byron defines a “Surprise” as an ev…
Eight years ago, I set out and prepared a list of possible surprises for the coming year, taking a page out of the estimable Byron Wien’s playbook, who originally delivered his list while chief investment strategist at Morgan Stanley, then Pequot Ca…