U.S.-Based Pensions Rush to Assess Interest-Rate Risk
David Eisenberg
got a call this month from a finance official at a U.S.-based multinational company. The executive wanted to know whether the company had derivatives in its retirement portfolio.“We explained that they don’t,” said Mr. Eisenberg, an investment adviser with Buck, a New York-based pension-actuary and human-resources consulting firm. “They were worried that if they were using derivatives they were exposed to risk.” The U.K. pension blowup has left many U.S. companies pushing…