Table of Contents |July 1993
Repo Men
Repurchase agreements have emerged as the overnight investment vehicle of choice for many pension managers.
Magazine Articles
Table of Contents |July 1993
Mind Control
Use of mental health care benefits is rising fast. Corporations are starting to worry about the effect on post-retirement costs.
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The Portability Problem
Beset by FAS 106 obligations, corporate benefit plans could use more help from their employees with funding. But without health benefit portability this may be hard to come...
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Work In Progress
The Common Fund is trying to boost performance by College and university endowments in some new ways-through education, and by promoting global investing.
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Team Work
Activist pension funds have some powerful new allies in unions like the Teamsters.
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Northern Revolt
Taking a cue from their US Counterparts, Canadian public pension sponsors are learning to be shareholder activists.
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Free Lunch Still Served
Amid a market that refuses to recover some Japanese pension funds are getting tough with their brokers and investment managers. But the network of cozy relationships is a...
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The Numbers Game
Fixed-income analytics afford pension sponsors a more sophisticated knowledge of their portfolios. But few are ready to move up the curve.
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Measurement Wars
Pension funds in search of improved performance measurement products now have new providers custodians. But the traditional providers, consultants, are fighting back.
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Armchair Traveler
McGill University is one of a growing group of Canadian pension sponsors which use derivatives to increase their overseas market exposures
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Inefficient Market Theory – Thinking About the Performance Game
Some plan sponsors are worried.
Table of Contents |July 1993
Dora Romero, age 71
Retired office worker, Mountain Bell, Annual Pension: $5,592
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Putting Off The Future
New study casts doubt on US pension investing habits
Table of Contents |April 1993
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Fiduciary?
In a drawn-out case against Hancock Life, Harris Trust is trying to prove the insurer is a fiduciary under ERISA.
Table of Contents |April 1993
“The Last Great Untapped Source of Capital”
Will Willie Clinton make like Willie Sutton, and go where the money is? If he does, his six-shooters are likely to be pension taxation and infrastructure investment.
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Multifamily Madness
Mortgage-backed securities have not held much appeal for pensions in a long time. But a bubbling market in multifamily paper may change that.
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Passing the Quality Test
Total quality management is catching on with private plan sponsors. For some, it means revamping-even reducing-the fund's outside manager relationships.
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Georgia On My Mind
What do you do when your investment manager has a public relations problem that could turn into a disaster?
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Ontario’s Infrastructure Skirmish
The province's socialist government wanted to combine its five big pension funds to promote infrastructure investment. When the funds balked, the government backed off
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The Year of the Pension
Changes are in the air as Japan's pension system readies for its five-year check-up in 1993.