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Editorial Comment: Competitiva Tools for a Tighter Labor Market
Twenty-four percent allocation to growth equity, 15%
to international, and just 11% to money markets: Sounds like
the kind of asset allocation most employers would love to see
among their 401(k) participants, right?
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial Comment: Competitiva Tools for a Tighter Labor Market
Twenty-four percent allocation to growth equity, 15% to international, and just 11%...
Portrait of Retiree
Portrait of Retiree
Portrait of a Retiree: Harold Kastle
Retired human resources manager, 74
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Plan Sponsor December/January 1997 Letters
Plansponsor December/January 1997 Letters
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Unfriendly Skies
Former Pan Am employees are seeking to remove the PBGC as trustee of the bankrupt airline's underfunded pension plan.
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Pushing the Limits at Archer Daniels
After a record fine and a record shareholder vote against management's definition of an independent board, what's next for ADM?
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Blood Money
An Indiana court orders a private plan sponsor to pay a preretirement annuity to the widow-and murderer-of one of its participants.
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Local Investor
How the Retirement Systems of Alabama lent the state a hand to lure a new Mercedes plant-and made a nice profit for itself.
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Debbie Boyer, Evans Hotels
Most employers find it tough enough to get employees excited about a 401(k) plan. Picture trying to build their enthusiasm when many of your employees do not speak...
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Minorities Receive Smaller Pensions
Poor pension coverage among non-white workers threatens to create more impoverished retirees in the decades ahead. How did this happen, and what can employers and government do about...
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AT&T Severed Connections
Was AT&T's billion pension split-up a better deal for new AT&T than for Lucent? A union says yes, charging breach of fiduciary duty.
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Managing for Two
ATTIMCO will run both the AT&T and Lucent pension funds for now. But the AT&T subsidiary sees potential for more business from plans that want to outsource.
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Roundtable: You and Your Vendor
Outsourcing retirement and benefit plan functions only works if the employer's relationship with its vendors work. Plan Sponsor asked three companies how links to their outsourcing providers helped...
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Outsourcing: Why They Did It
Cost and staff reductions, better service, and refocusing on core activities were among the goals that drew three companies to outsourcing.
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Prudent Experts
Can not using derivatives to achieve its objectives put a plan sponsor at risk of a lawsuit?
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Why More Money Managers are Farming Out Their Investment Duties
If you think you know everybody on the money management team that runs your plan's portfolio, look again.
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The Going Gets Tougher for Minority and Women
The going gets tougher for minority and women managers-and plan sponsors who want to hire them
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Short-Timers and Long-Termers
How one UK pension scheme provides for both types of employees
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ERISA Online
New Web sites give pension officials the latest legal, regulatory changes electronically
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Old Masters Vs. Blue Chips
The British Railways Pension Fund is selling off its unusual portfolio of art and antiques.
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Risky Business
How some plan sponsors cope with withdrawal and market risk of synthetic GICs
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Defined Contribution Plan Conversions
Tips for how to get a difficult job right the first time
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Microsoft Improperly Denied Benefits to Part Time Workers
Court ruling against software giant could prompt review of sponsors' plan language
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Cost Cut
Despite recent slashing, will the long decline in core custody fees soon reverse itself?
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The Neglected Policy Component
Using rebalancing to enhance risk-adjusted portfolio performance
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When it Does Not Pay to Defer
What plans should know about the new excess accumulation tax rules