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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide:Education
With the automated-plan concept taking hold, 401(k)
participant education is emphasizing investment-related
topics less, says adviser Douglas Prince, Indianapolis-based
Managing Director of The Prince Group at Stifel, Nicolaus
& Co., Inc.
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Exchange Traded Funds
Are exchange-traded funds (ETFs) finally poised to charge onto the 401(k) stage...
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Health Savings Accounts
Health savings accounts (HSAs) remain more the exception than the rule in...
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2008 PLANSPONSOR Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Managed Accounts
The rise of "automatic" asset-allocation solutions like target-date funds has not eliminated...
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Master Trust/Custody
Master trust/custody has always been a technology-driven business but, as demand for services by clients increased, the investment capital needed to create new technology increased exorbitantly, and custodians...
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Non Qualified Deferred Compensation
Section 409A continued to dominate the nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) universe in 2007 and is the most signifÂicant development in the field in the last 15 years, say...
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Performance Measurement
It is rare to get full accord on any trend line question concerning performance measurement but, asked to cite the most significant developments in this field over the...
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Private Equity
Private equity has been one of U.S. institutions' best performing assets of the last 10 years.
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Retirement Income
Plan sponsors are just starting to talk about adding new retirement-income options to their investment lineups, says adviser Larry Deatherage, but talking is about all they are doing...
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide. Risk-Based Funds
"The adviser marketplace seems to be moving very quickly away from risk-based default funds to target-date funds," says adviser Allan Chappelle, President of Chappelle Consulting Group, Inc., in...
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Rollover
After years of talking about the need, the defined contribution (DC) industry finally has shifted its focus from the accumuÂlation phase of retirement income to the distribution phase.
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Roth 401(k)s
Plans are adding the Roth 401(k) as a feature very aggressively, says adviser Vince Morris, Vice President of Retirement Plan Services at Kansas City-based Bukaty Companies, but not...
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Securities Lending
Particularly in a period of market volatility, plan sponsors are looking for low-risk alpha, and securities lending fits the bill to a "T."
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Self-Directed Brokerage Accounts
For years, self-directed brokerage accounts (SDBAs) were almost the exclusive domain, within defined contribution plans, of highly sophisticated investors or those with large account balances who just were...
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Stable Value
Despite intense lobbying, capital preservation funds were not approved as qualified default investment alternatives (QDIAs) for automatic enrollment plans.
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Stock Plan Administration
Despite the regulatory and accounting changes that have taken place in the last few years, equity compensation is still a great way to reward employees, explains Bill Dillhoefer,...
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Target-Date Funds
Many people now think of target-date funds as the industry standard for a default investment, says Jennifer Flodin, COO at Chicago-based Plan Sponsor Advisors, LLC.
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Total Retirement Outsourcing (TRO)
The big news in 2007 regarding total retirement outsourcing (TRO) was that there really was not any new news—but TRO continues to escalate in popularity with plan sponsors...
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Transition Management
In 2001, Peter Pronovost set out to save hundreds of lives with a few pieces of paper.
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: 130/30 Strategies
The largest single investment for many pension plans is large-cap U.S. equities.
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: 403(b)
With the issue of final 403(b) regulations and impending implementation dates, it is a time of very significant change for 403(b) plan programs.
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Alternative Investments
Alternative Investments: Generally speaking, any investment class other than stocks, bonds, or cash.
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Asset Liability Management
During the 1980s and 1990s, the pension world concentrated its efforts on the asset side of plans, taking advantage of the strong stock markets.
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PLANSPONSOR 2008 Ultimate Buyer’s Guide: Collective Trusts
Collective investment trusts, sometimes referred to as collective, or commingled, funds, are hardly a new idea.
Editorial |April 2008
Fourth Coming
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act was nearly 20 years old when PLANSPONSOR debuted as a quarterly publication in 1993.
IMHO |April 2008
Utility “Bill”
While it's been a relatively mild winter here, it's been cold enough—and our house old enough—that opening the various utility bills has been akin to a monthly exercise...
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: Ann L. Combs
Ann Combs is one of those rare talents who has successfully made the transition from public sector to private—and back.
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: Allen Reed
The state of General Motor's pension fund is and was always going to be scrutinized carefully.
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: Bill Sharpe & Jeff Maggioncalda
When Bill Sharpe co-founded Financial Engines in 1996, he already had established a well-deserved reputation not only in academic circles, but also with some of the nation's largest...
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: David F. Swensen
David Swensen has been the chief investment officer at Yale University since 1985.
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: Eliot Spitzer
It would be an understatement of mythic proportions to say that Eliot Spitzer is a polarizing figure in our industry.
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awarads: Larry Fink
In 1987, with some like-minded fixed-income Young Turks, mostly from First Boston, Larry Fink pitched his idea about a new type of asset management firm to a highly...
Special Report |April 2008
Legends: Thomas F. Loeb
These last 15 years have changed the face of asset management: Firms that were boutiques in 1990 are now huge multi-class asset management firms, hedge funds have mushroomed,...
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: Dallas Salisbury
If the retirement plan industry ever decided to produce "Mythbusters," its host surely would have to be Dallas Salisbury.
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: Denise L. Nappier
Connecticut, for all its white picket fences and cozy Yankeeism, has a storied history of political corruption.
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: Fred Reish
Reish Luftman Reicher & Cohenhe legal profession has its share of detractors—even Shakespeare suggested that we "first, kill all the lawyers"—but, in an arena fraught with concerns about...
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: Gregory J. Dean, Jr.
Making laws, Otto von Bismarck famously observed, is like making sausages—you don't want to look too closely at the inner workings.
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: Ned Johnson
In financial services, this has been the generation of the mutual fund complexes: Fidelity, Vanguard, and Schwab have become iconic brands.
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: Rob Portman & Ben Cardin
Over the long history of workplace retirement plans, legislation nearly always has meant more work, more limitations, and fewer reasons for employers to sponsor these programs in the...
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: Dr. Shlomo Benartzi
For as long as there have been workplace savings plans, plan sponsors have worried about how best to get participants to take advantage of these programs, a concern...
Special Report |April 2008
2008 PLANSPONSOR Legends Awards: Bill Chetney
On a beach in Baja, Mexico, in 2002, Bill Chetney, a free spirit whose unusual career path had included stints as a butcher, an adviser, the build-up and...