Category: NISA in the News
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NISA’s Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) Assessment Captures Media Attention
Assessment of Pension Risk Transfer (PRT) providers’ creditworthiness is critical, yet considerably more difficult given developments in the PRT market and the opaqueness and financial engineering often involved. To aid fiduciaries choosing an insurer as part of a PRT transaction, NISA developed an additional tool that uses spreads on insurer FABN issuance to estimate the…
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NISA on Bloomberg Intelligence Podcast
Ranked by Pensions & Investments as the largest LDI manager in the U.S. for 2021,1 NISA offers their perspective on key structural differences between the U.S. and U.K. LDI markets. David Eichhorn, NISA CEO and Head of Investment Strategies, was recently a guest of Ira Jersey’s on Bloomberg Intelligence’s Macro Matters podcast about LDI. An…
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NISA’s Thought Leadership Gets Media Attention
NISA’s thought leader paper, “The Disparity Among Risk Parity Managers,” has attained wide media recognition. In it, we found no solid evidence of alpha among risk parity managers, but did find what we believe to be a better benchmark and investment strategy. CIO Magazine Markets/Business Insider Associated Press
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A Blast from the LDI Past
Some things never age, apparently. We thought you might enjoy this P&I article from almost 30 years ago about the growing interest in fixed income investment strategies—and in particular about one of the young mavericks who left academia to apply his theories. You’ll see that much of the discussion from back then about interest rate…