Managing Corporate Pension Plans: The Impacts of Inflation

An essential deep-dive for corporate finance leaders, pension fund managers, and investment strategists, where economists Dennis E. Logue and Richard J. Rogalski confront one of the most persistent threats to retirement security, inflation, unpacking how it erodes pension fund purchasing power, undermines investment returns, and destabilizes the corporate pension system, before charting a data-driven path toward passive strategies, optimal portfolio construction, and inflation-resistant assets like bonds and commodity futures that can safeguard retirement savings for generations of employees and retirees alike. 

Do the effects of inflation threaten the nation's private pension plans? The answer given by the authors is no, although some pension plans have failed to compensate investors for the erosion of the purchasing power of their funds.