The Corporate Retirement Plan Group focuses on the critical requirements of corporations and plan sponsors as they confront numerous issues. Corporate Retirement plans are complex employee benefits that provide participants with the opportunity to provide for a financially secure retirement while sponsors utilize these plans to attract and retain a talented workforce. Today’s global business environment forces corporate retirement plans to compete for capital and risk allocations with all other businesses.
Many retirement plan managers should review the key factors of retirement plan governance, management and operations and determine if they have the tools to achieve their investment objectives. Management must be aware that poor decisions regarding the retirement plans can have a negative impact on the financial health of the company.
Hammond Associates’ corporate retirement plan practice group understands the unique challenges facing plan sponsors today such as the volatility of a pension plans funded status or the enormous mismatch between pension assets and liabilities in a traditional asset allocation.
The corporate retirement plan team has practical, hands on experience working through the challenges facing plan sponsors of defined benefit and defined contribution plans. Our consultants and research directors have served as chief investment officers and senior managers to some of the leading corporate retirement plans such as Anheuser-Busch, Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation and the Southern Company.