HARVESTING THE POTENTIAL OF PRIVATE INVESTMENTS.

INVESTMENTS; DEFINED benefit pension plans; RATE of return; LIQUIDITY (Economics); INVESTMENT policy; PRICE inflation; ECONOMIC development

The article focuses on private investment (PI) in the U.S. and its pivotal role in helping defined benefit pension plans yield better returns. Topics mentioned include the importance of investment strategy as one of the major factors of solvency for the defined benefit pension plans, the overestimation of plan trustees and sponsors on the issue of their plans' liquidity and the projected low PI returns due to low inflation, high equity market and slow economic growth.