Cash Flow Matching

Cash Flow Matching - Cash flow matching is being able to match estimated investments with liabilities to provide enough of a return to balance an investor's portfolio. This cash flow matching strategy is regularly used in pension fund management and retirement savings plans, since a steady flow of future liabilities has to be met with more than adequate cash flows to keep the pension plan or savings plan funded. This is also known as portfolio dedication or dedicating a portfolio. Investors who have an expected financial goal for retirement would find this to be useful during the younger years, although older investors would be better to use bonds as opposed to stocks.