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Plan Sponsor October 1994 Letters
Plansponsor October1994 Letters
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Suddenly on the Fast Track
Now attached to a fast-tracked GATT treaty, PBGC reform has a chance...
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Eyes on the Prize
Outsourcing comes to the Swedish institutional market, as the Nobel Foundation boosts its international investments and hires a stable of foreign-based managers to run them.
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Bradley hearings contemplate seriousness of decline in personal savings
At the Bradley hearings, everyone agreed that personal savings are declining. How big a problem this will be or the next generation of retirees was harder to decide.
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Profile: Michael Reynolds, Pentegra Group
Michael Reynolds, Pentegra Group
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Phantom Workforce
Employers who use part-time and other contingency workers can realize huge pension and benefits savings. But the legal requirements are complex, and government increasingly frowns on the practice.
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1994 Honor Roll of Pension Plan Sponsors
Plan Sponsor's first survey of corporate pension sponsors reveals that corporate performance and pension plan performance need not be closely related
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The Project Pension Courtship
Pension sponsors are being courted hard by governments and other infrastructure project backers. But it may take much more to pry their dollars loose.
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LACERA Gets Aggressive
Los Angeles County employees hope that a pension obligation bond, plus a more aggressive asset allocation strategy, will bring financial health to their plan.
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Clearing the Air on ETIs
After releasing a new interpretive bulletin on ETIs, Labor Department officials hope they have laid pension sponsors' fears to rest about how these investments affect their fiduciary duties
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Homes Away from Home
Cautiously, US pension funds are beginning to invest in overseas real estate. Most favor commingled funds, and the UK is the most popular market thus far.
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The End of the Line
CALPERS is looking at slimming down its weighty RFP questionnaires and relaxing aspects of its screening process.
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Going to the Voters
Public pension issues will be debated in several key state races this fall.
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Daily Valuation Dilemma
Daily valuation is now wildly popular. Some some worry that it raises costs, adds new recordkeeping stresses, and, possibly, harms investment performance.
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Hunting for Returns
The Illinois Teachers fund juggles three distinct overlay strategies to control its currency exposure and minimize downside on its stocks and bonds.
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A Wider Gateway
New IRS regulations are intended to make it easier for employers to provide different benefits packages for separate lines of business. Yet significant problems still exist, critics say.
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Taming OTC Derivatives
Washington is abuzz with talk of how to prevent more OTC derivatives disasters. But for pension sponsors, the key may be to get a better understanding of this...
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Plan Sponsor 1994 Global Custody Survey
State Street and Chase take the top spots in the 1994 survey of global custody services. Meanwhile, a select group of European providers appear to be catching up...
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Portrait of a Retiree: C David Cornell
70, Retired college professor and administrator