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The largest single investment for many pension plans is large-cap U.S. equities.

With the issue of final 403(b) regulations and impending implementation dates, it is a time of very significant change for 403(b) plan programs.

Alternative Investments: Generally speaking, any investment class other than stocks, bonds, or cash.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the pension world concentrated its efforts on the asset side of plans, taking advantage of the strong stock markets.

Collective investment trusts, sometimes referred to as collective, or commingled, funds, are hardly a new idea.

Ann Combs is one of those rare talents who has successfully made the transition from public sector to private—and back.

The state of General Motor's pension fund is and was always going to be scrutinized carefully.

When Bill Sharpe co-founded Financial Engines in 1996, he already had established a well-deserved reputation not only in academic circles, but also with some of the nation's largest...

David Swensen has been the chief investment officer at Yale University since 1985.

It would be an understatement of mythic proportions to say that Eliot Spitzer is a polarizing figure in our industry.

In 1987, with some like-minded fixed-income Young Turks, mostly from First Boston, Larry Fink pitched his idea about a new type of asset management firm to a highly...

These last 15 years have changed the face of asset management: Firms that were boutiques in 1990 are now huge multi-class asset management firms, hedge funds have mushroomed,...

If the retirement plan industry ever decided to produce "Mythbusters," its host surely would have to be Dallas Salisbury.

Connecticut, for all its white picket fences and cozy Yankeeism, has a storied history of political corruption.

Reish Luftman Reicher & Cohenhe legal profession has its share of detractors—even Shakespeare suggested that we "first, kill all the lawyers"—but, in an arena fraught with concerns about...

Making laws, Otto von Bismarck famously observed, is like making sausages—you don't want to look too closely at the inner workings.

In financial services, this has been the generation of the mutual fund complexes: Fidelity, Vanguard, and Schwab have become iconic brands.

Over the long history of workplace retirement plans, legislation nearly always has meant more work, more limitations, and fewer reasons for employers to sponsor these programs in the...

For as long as there have been workplace savings plans, plan sponsors have worried about how best to get participants to take advantage of these programs, a concern...

On a beach in Baja, Mexico, in 2002, Bill Chetney, a free spirit whose unusual career path had included stints as a butcher, an adviser, the build-up and...