Discretionary Asset Management (DAM)

ING has managed pension and other fiduciary portfolios on a discretionary basis for over 30 years.

Our comprehensive bundled Discretionary Asset Management platform (DAM) provides today’s pension plan sponsors with what they need most: fiduciary investment oversight with a focus on integrated asset/ liability management.

Our robust pension analytics and asset liability modeling techniques help us design and implement asset allocations that can reduce surplus volatility and funding costs. DAM invests across multiple asset classes including domestic and international equities, intermediate and long duration fixed income, as well as other specialty asset classes for suitable investors.

Since plan success is not dictated by investment returns alone, our performance measurement tools include not only the traditional manager risk and return metrics, but also the ability to incorporate pension liability and surplus reporting to give a clear picture of the factors that most influence a plan’s financial condition.