Magazine Articles
Table of Contents |April 1993
Ending “Reckless Prudence”
Proving once again that politics makes strange bedfellows
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Catch-401 (k)
Defined contribution plans are sweeping the nation. But the trend has its problems-and it is not yet clear whether anyone can save 401(k) investors from themselves.
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The Quiet Lobbyist
Private pension funds have struggled to find a voice for their investment concerns in Washington. In CIEBA, they may have found it-right at the time when it has...
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Canada’s Sharp-Toothed Watchdog
The PIAC is Canada's top lobbyist on pension issues. Economically targeted investing is its big new challenge
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Dealer’s Choice
Pension funds' fixation on commission costs has helped create a market that often works against their own interests. To solve the problem, they must learn to look more...
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Conflicts of Interest?
It's 9:30 am: do you know what your broker is doing?
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Canada’s Harvest of Embarrassment
Few front-running cases ever reach the public gaze. One that did was the case against Dominion Securities broker Michael Biscotti.
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Union-Made
The AFL-CIO gets serious about developing an integrated pro-labor investment strategy for its pensions. New guidelines sanction both foreign investing and ETIs
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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.
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Coming Home
In-house options strategies are on the rise at pension funds.
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Looking for the Payoff
Two recent studies indicate that corporate governance initiatives can indeed boost the bottom line for pensions that want to be activist investors.
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No More Welfare State
A shareholder revolt in the Netherlands offers hope for investors frustrated by low returns on big Dutch multinationals.
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STIF-Arming
"Enhanced" STIFs are appealing to pension sponsors in search of greater yield on their cash balances.
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The Bloomberg Factor
While many plan sponsors find Bloombergs useful, only the most sophisticated consider the popular information and analytics tool a must-have.
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Cracks in the Facade
Canada's trust services market is opening up. For pensions the results are competition, lower fees, and lots of new products.