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The Mega 401(k)
Huge 401(k0 plans are using their bargaining power
to get the best advice, pricing, and service. Smaller plans
are beginning to reap the benefits.
Editorial
Editorial
Service or Performance?
When it comes to rating their defined benefit managers, readers are hard-pressed...
Feature
Feature
Yorktown Revisited
Why British firms are working harder than ever to regain their footing...
Q/A
Q/A
Rhumbline’s options: Ron Golz’s opinion
In mid-1996, Rhumbline Advisers, the Boston-based quantitative investment management firm created in...
Outtakes |December 1999
The Biggs Picture
Barton Biggs, chairman of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Investment Management, has long pushed for diversification of pension assets abroad. Now he is convinced the rationale for that is...
Web Watch |December 1999
Investment Skinny
Whether it is research, earnings reports, or conference-call Webcasts you are seeking, the Web is rich with offerings
Wired Participant |December 1999
One Provider, No Waiting
Why the majority of respondents to a new survey are using one vendor to service two or more retirement plans
Participant Roundtable |December 1999
Is Fixed In?
Fixed-income investment options--in the shape of Guaranteed Investment Contracts--dominated the defined contribution arena in the 1980s.
Table of Contents |December 1999
Getting the Word Out
Wayne v. Pacific Bell has employers wondering when to let the cat out of the bag when they make changes to their retirement plans
Table of Contents |December 1999
HMO Liability Dilemma
A new bill that would allow employees to sue health plans is being widely criticized
Table of Contents |December 1999
Stepping on Some Toes
Do the SEC's latest ethics proposals improperly encroach on FEC turf?
Table of Contents |December 1999
Multiemployer Manual
What Taft-Hartley trustees might not know about defined contribution plans
Table of Contents |December 1999
Cashing Out?
When changing jobs, most 401(k) participants still take the money and run
Table of Contents |December 1999
Temps’ Full-Time Solution?
A temporary staffing agency uses its 401(k) to stand out from the crowd
Table of Contents |December 1999
The Union Label
Why "conservative" Taft-Hartley plans are increasingly copying their corporate counterparts with self-directed DC options and international investments
Table of Contents |December 1999
Enter Fidelity
Faced with the prospect of extending its contract with Hewitt, Monsanto decided it was time to take a second look at recordkeeping alternatives
Table of Contents |December 1999
Institutional Pricing for the Smaller Plan
In October, New York Life Benefit Services in Norwood, Massachusetts, announced its Retirement Investment Series
Table of Contents |December 1999
Customized Options: Will Sponsors Get with the PROgram
Reasoning that not every participant will spend the time, or is capable of making a considered decision about her investment options, Strategic Financial Concepts, a retirement and investment...
Table of Contents |December 1999
Unilver Case: Miscast?
The new emphasis among British fund managers on riskand their long-standing preference for active managementare both at the center of an impending court case between the biggest UK...
Table of Contents |December 1999
Private Equity Squeeze
Pointers for smaller funds wanting to join the private equity party
Table of Contents |December 1999
Measuring Up
International indices are springing up like mushrooms, forcing plan sponsors to rethink their benchmarks
Table of Contents |December 1999
Riding On Clinton’s Coat Tails
At the center of Gore's strategy is a Clintonesque approach to use US budget surpluses to pay down the nation's debt
Table of Contents |December 1999
Routing 401(k) Rollovers
More participants are asking plan sponsors what to do with their retirement proceeds when they retire or leave jobs; vendors are answering the call
Table of Contents |December 1999
Twin Fiduciaries
The $20 billion Central States Teamsters' pension has been split between two trustees. How will Goldman and JP Morgan fare?
Table of Contents |December 1999
Furthering Family Leave
Why new legislation is being introduced to expand the Family and Medical Leave Act--and how these provisions will impact plan sponsors
Table of Contents |December 1999
Come Together
How Rhône-Poulenc is consolidating pension asset management
Table of Contents |December 1999
Can You Spare a Dime?
Participants are frequently instructed not to borrow from their own 401(k) plans if they can help it. Here is the other side of the coin