As companies struggle with underfunded defined-benefit pension plans, more are deciding to offload the chore of investing their plan assets.
Russell Investments, which has been providing such outsourced investment management, which it calls fiduciary solutions, since 1980, said it received 31% more completed requests for proposals (RFPs) for investment outsourcing last year than it did in 2011. And a recent survey by Asset International's Chief Investment Officer Magazine showed 55% of companies with pension plans did some investment outsourcing or plan to do so within the next 24 months.
“The interest level has increased quite a bit,” said Eric Macy, managing director of fiduciary solutions at Seattle-based Russell. “People talked about it for a few years, but last year we really started seeing it.”
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