Liability-driven investing

Innovative LDI solutions and the ability to partner with plan sponsors at ALL stages of plan design and implementation

Our edge in ldi

Our client solutions draw on multi-asset skill within a distinctively collaborative environment

Fixed income expertise in rates, credit, securitized, and derivative markets
Deep fundamental credit research enhanced by equity investor perspectives
Specialist trading resources to help support liquidity needs
Actuaries who translate liability cash flows into practical investment ideas
Experience managing full pension solutions and implementing glidepath approaches

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Our foundational philosophy on constructing liability-hedging and return-seeking portfolios

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Liability-hedging diversifiers: What’s on your pension’s playlist?

Corporate pensions moving closer to their end state may benefit from more diversified liability-hedging allocations. To help, LDI Team Chair Amy Trainor offers a liability-hedging diversifiers “playlist” — a set of asset classes and strategies that may harmonize well with a variety of objectives, from downside mitigation to long-term outperformance versus long corporate bonds.

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2024-10-31

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Setting ROAs for 2025: A guide for US corporate and public plans

How are pension plans adjusting their ROA assumptions? And how do those assumptions line up with our long-term capital market assumptions? Find out in this annual update.

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2025-11-30

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Why more corporate plans should pass on pension risk transfers

LDI Team Chair Amy Trainor explains why she believes a pension risk transfer may, in many cases, not be the best choice for fully funded plans from a cost/benefit standpoint.

Amy Trainor, FSA

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5 min

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2025-11-30

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Extra credit for corporate plans: Advanced topics in LDI implementation

To help corporate DB plans refine their liability-hedging strategies, members of our LDI Team take a deep dive on 3 key liability risks and offer ideas to help improve the design of hedging portfolios.

Amy Trainor, FSA

Jacqueline Yang, CFA

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2026-08-31

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Private placements: A primer for corporate DB plans preparing to derisk

With many corporate DB plans exploring derisking opportunities, Portfolio Manager Elisabeth Perenick and Multi-Asset Strategist Amy Trainor discuss the potential role that private investment-grade credit, or private placements, could play and consider common questions about liquidity and allocation sizing.

Elisabeth Perenick, FSA, CFA

Amy Trainor, FSA

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9 min

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2025-08-31

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The evolution of derisking: Assessing new and time-tested liability-hedging ideas

As defined benefit plans contemplate the best path to their eventual “end state,” members of our LDI team update their liability-hedging research with a blend of traditional benchmark ideas and new opportunities to capitalize on changing market conditions and a broader investment universe.

Amy Trainor, FSA

Jacqueline Yang, CFA

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2026-06-30

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Time to derisk? Funded status up, but potential volatility ahead

LDI Team Chair Amy Trainor explains why US corporate DB plans may have a rare and limited opportunity to derisk and offers suggested action steps.

Amy Trainor, FSA

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3 min

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2024-11-15

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Using defensive equities in a return-seeking portfolio: A factor framework for corporate plans

Members of our LDI and Fundamental Factor teams share their views on defensive equity investments, including their role in a plan's portfolio and the current environment for defensive factors.

Tom Simon, CFA, FRM

Amy Trainor, FSA

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2025-03-31

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Bank downgrades: Should LDI investors be worried?

Members of our LDI team discuss the implications of recent US bank credit-rating downgrades and offer potential next steps for corporate plan sponsors.

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2024-11-30

Liability-driven investing Asset allocation Portfolio construction Private pension (DB) iStrat Private debt Multi-asset Strategic allocation Diversification Whitepaper

Liability-hedging diversifiers: What’s on your pension’s playlist?

Amy Trainor, FSA

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2024-10-31

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Mind the liquidity (and cost) gap: Revisiting a plan’s hedge-ratio approach

Members of our LDI Team take a fresh look at the process of setting and managing liability hedge ratio targets, including liquidity considerations that are top of mind today and the implementation toolkit.

Amy Trainor, FSA

Jeremy Forster

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2025-06-30

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LDI in 2023: Ten questions corporate plan sponsors are asking

Members of our LDI Team address a range of topics that US corporate plans will be thinking about in the coming year, from the investment implications of pension accounting changes to the role of alternatives in a return-seeking portfolio.

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2023-12-31

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How do we work with you?

We partner with plan sponsors at all stages of the LDI process, tapping the full breadth of Wellington’s capabilities.

1. Custom research and consultation

Liability cash-flow analysis

Asset/liability studies

Glidepath construction

End-state investing framework

Pension accounting updates

Cash balance framework

2. Investments for a broad range of objectives

Liability matching

Long-duration

Long credit/corporate
Long government/corporate
STRIPS and Treasuries

Intermediate credit/corporate

LDI diversifiers

Long-duration securitized
Taxable municipals
Private placements
Portable alpha

Liability-aware diversifiers

Listed infrastructure and REITs

Return-seeking fixed income

Hedge funds

Return seeking: Core and defensive equity

Core equity

Core global and regional equities
Extension (140/40) strategies
Late-stage private equity

Defensive equity

Income-oriented equity strategies
Cash compounder equity strategies
Low-volatility equities
Multi-strategy equity solutions
Multi-factor equity solutions

3. LDI portfolio construction and reporting

Custom LDI benchmark blends

Completion management

Cash bond portfolios with derivative overlays

Cash-flow-driven investment

Dynamic pension management

Cash balance solutions

This is for illustrative purposes only and is not an investment recommendation. This is not an all-inclusive list of approaches that may fit the stated theme. Investing involves risk, and an investment in an approach could lose money.

Meet our ldi team

LDI team chair

Amy Trainor

, FSA

LDI Team Chair and Multi-Asset Strategist

Experience

30 years of professional experience, 18 years in asset management, and 13 years in actuarial accounting

Amy helps corporate pension sponsors set strategic asset allocation policy. She manages customized multi-asset portfolios, including glidepath approaches and completion mandates. She partners with the Fixed Income Team to implement LDI solutions.

Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA)
Chair of Wellington’s Retirement Benefit Plans Oversight Committee and a member of the Audit Committee and Investment Stewardship Committee

LDI fixed income portfolio manager

Connor Fitzgerald

, CFA

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager

Jeremy Forster

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager

Joseph Marvan

, CFA

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager

Sean Lamkin, CFA

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager

Scott St. John

, CFA

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager

Portfolio management resources

Brian Conroy

, CFA

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager

Caroline Casavant

Fixed Income Analyst

Emeka Onukwugha

, CFA

Head of Private Placements

Liz Perenick

, CFA, FSA

Head of Portfolio Management, Private Placements

Marc Piccuirro

, CFA

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager

Schuyler Reece, CFA

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager

Actuarial & quant resources

Bill Schmitt

Asc Dir, Risk Oversight, FI & Diversified Alts

Peter Matheos

, PhD

Director, Global Risk and Analytics

Zhenzhen Zhang

, CFA

ALM and Regulatory Capital Strategist

LDI portfolio construction

Anne Greenwood

, CFA

Investment Director

Christian Erazo

Investment Specialist

Jacqueline Yang

, CFA

Investment Strategy Analyst

Katherine Brophy

Investment Strategy Analyst

Ryan Hannum

Investment Analyst

Sarah Wu

Research Associate

Samuel Steere

, CFA

Investment Director

Valerie Villegas-Hoag

Investment Specialist

Client & consultant views

Amy Morse

, CFA

Director of Pension Strategies and Relationship Manager

Brendan MacKenzie

, CFA

Consultant Relations Manager

Ryan Randolph

Director of Corporate Pension Strategies and Relationship Manager

Ryan Randolph

Director of Corporate Pension Strategies and Relationship Manager

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Time to get active? 5 equity investment ideas for 2025

As we head into 2025, growth seems poised to accelerate, especially in the US. Equity Strategist Andrew Heiskell and Macro Strategist Nicolas Wylenzek see five themes that may create opportunity across global equity markets.

Andrew Heiskell

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2025-12-31

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AI is hungry: What’s on the menu?

Our technology venture capital experts explore AI’s potential for disruption, highlight potential winners and losers, and dive deep into the innovation’s impact on the software industry.

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Mark Watson

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European equities: cyclically challenged but structurally supported

Macro Strategist Nicolas Wylenzek discusses why, despite cyclical challenges, European equities may be in the best structural position that they have been in for years.

Nicolas Wylenzek

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2024-06-30

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Chinese equities: Pockets of strength for patient stock pickers

Portfolio manager Bo Meunier explores how China’s recovery may be more modest than headline numbers suggest and why, as a stock picker, she remains constructive.

Bo Meunier, CFA

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2024-06-30

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Private credit in a new regime

We explore how a shifting macro backdrop, ongoing banking crisis, and evolving competitive dynamics may create opportunities across private credit markets.

Emeka Onukwugha, CFA

Elisabeth Perenick, FSA, CFA

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2024-06-30

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Focus on what you can control: Five alternative investment ideas for an uncertain world

Multi-Asset Strategists Nick Samouilhan and Adam Berger explain how a variety of alternative investments, including select hedge funds and private credit, could help allocators reduce the importance of the economic cycle to their portfolio results.

Adam Berger, CFA

Nick Samouilhan, PhD, CFA, FRM

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2024-06-30

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The state of venture capital markets

Co-head of private investments Michael Carmen shares his outlook for venture capital markets, including the state of deal flow, valuations, and the IPO market.

Michael Carmen, CFA

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2024-06-30

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Europe/US divergence: the ECB has further to go

How far will Europe diverge from the US? Macro Strategist Eoin O’Callaghan sees several reasons sustaining this growing divergence.

Eoin O'Callaghan

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2024-06-30

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A quiet bull market in EM local debt?

Brian Garvey illustrates the recent strength of emerging markets local debt following an extended period of underperformance.

Brian Garvey

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2024-06-30

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Global high yield: Attractive entry points could soon emerge

Fixed Income Portfolio Manager Konstantin Leidman shares his outlook for high-yield fixed income for the rest of this year and beyond.

Konstantin Leidman, CFA

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2024-06-30

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How do we work with you?

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Meet our ldi team

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