In recent years, adverse market conditions demolished the funding status of many defined benefit (DB) pension plans highlighting the need for better risk management. We propose a novel framework to decompose the risk of DB pension plans which differs from earlier work in two fundamental ways....

Investment portfolios that include private assets can gain a number of potential advantages, including diversification, enhanced returns and less risk. Moreover, there is evidence of a growing number of private asset investment opportunities that can have a positive sustainable impact. However,...