Corporate Finance

Strategies for optimizing cash investments amid interest-rate uncertainty and fears of an impending recession.

The increase in interest rates seen in 2022 improved pensions' funded status and provided attractive yields for sponsors wanting to de-risk.

As employee health benefits consume an increasing portion of the compensation pie, employers can take these steps to keep costs in check without reducing programs' benefits.

The ever changing socio-economic landscape will continue to alter the employment landscape as we know it.

Whether via audit or some other review process, it's not uncommon for employers to discover that a plan failure has occurred. Most errors are resolvable.

According to ISS Securities Class Action Services, 10 securities-related class actions settled for between $100 million and $1 billion in the U.S. last year. That more than doubled the number from 2021.

Social Security spending relative to GDP is set to increase sharply in the next decade as baby boomers retire.

Historical analysis suggests that improving the ESG profile of a fixed-income portfolio would not have undermined performance over the past decade.