We are pleased to present the 3rd annual MetLife U.S. Pension Risk Behavior IndexSM, a study of 149 corporate plan sponsors from among the 1,000 largest U.S. defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Now in its third year, the research measures plan sponsors’ aptitude for managing – and attitudes about – 18 investment, liability and business risks to which their plans are exposed.
As economic conditions begin to stabilize, the latest study reveals that plan sponsors are reprioritizing the risks facing their plans by focusing on a smaller number of risks and paying greater attention to them. Notably, two liability-related risks – Underfunding of Liabilities and Asset & Liability Mismatch – are front and center in importance in this year’s study. These findings are in contrast to the 2010 U.S. PRBI study when plan sponsors placed nearly equal importance on all risks facing their plan, and the 2009 study, which found that plan sponsors were intently focused on the asset side of the asset-liability equation.
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