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February 2012


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Cover

Strength of Knowledge

5 things you need to know about nonqualified deferred compensation plans

Editorial

What You Don’t Know

I’ve been interviewing many people for jobs recently, trying to find good candidates to join the editorial team of PLANSPONSOR and sister publications PLANSPONSOR Europe and PLANADVISER. One thing that strikes me in dealing with some of these applicants who have no history writing about, or working with, retirement plans is the different methods by which they say they will learn about our industry.

UpFront

Upfront - February 2012

Articles that appeared in the UpFront section of the magazine.

Survey Says

Can DC Plans Adequately Replace the Income Provided By DB Plans?

Late last year, in a discussion of the New York public pension system, Thomas DiNapoli, the state’s comptroller and sole trustee of the $133.8 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund (CRF), said 401(k) plans are not adequate to replace defined benefit plans. This led us to ask NewsDash readers whether they thought defined contribution plans are able to provide retirement income as adequately as defined benefit plans.

Bells & Whistles

Bells & Whistles - February 2012

Each month, Bells & Whistles highlights recent product introductions that plan sponsors­ may find of interest. More information about these announcements can be found on www.plansponsor.com. If you have a product announcement that you believe would be of interest to our ­readers, drop us a line at news@plansponsor.com.

Feature

PLANADVISER's 2012 Top 100 Retirement Plan Advisers

Last year, we introduced the PLANADVISER Top 100 Advisers, a listing of the advisers and adviser teams competing for the annual PLANSPONSOR’s Retirement Plan Adviser and Adviser Team of the Year awards that stand out in terms of a series of quantitative measures.

More than Meets the Eye

To, through, and other target-date assumptions you need to know

Head of the Class

A Fresh Look

Plan sponsors revisit emerging market equities

Barry's Pickings

Wrong Place To Start

Beginning with a discussion of adequacy misses the point

Saxon Angle

ERISA Litigation

Company stock cases continue to take top billing

Just out of Reish

A Changing World

Reasonable compensation—brought to light by 408(b)(2)

Tidbits

Tidbits - February 2012

Some quotes, survey statistics, and musings to use in employee communications, or just as a break in the grind.
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