Dane Mott has focused on pensions through much of his career, which has spanned the tech bubble and the global financial crisis—two periods when defined benefit (DB) issues were front and center for investors. Dane, an accounting analyst at Capital Group, recently sat down with Gary Veerman, head of LDI Solutions at Capital Group, to discuss plans’ outsized underfunding, aggressive asset allocations, the state of pension disclosures and why it may make sense for plan sponsors to embrace liability-driven investing (LDI), even in an era of low interest rates.