Table of Contents |January 2000
Retiree overflow
Performance is keeping the MRS healthy despite a glut of retirees
Magazine Articles
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Vanguard Street
Children's Television Workshop counts 100 basis-point savings
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The Do It Yourself Retirement Plan
At a time when outsourcing is all the rage, a few mavericks insist that, if you want things done right, "diy." What do they know that you don't?
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When Workers Would Rather Fight Than Switch
How to revamp your pension benefits without alienating your workforce
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The Mid-Sized Solution: Tactical Portfolio Management
The present environment for mid-sized defined benefit plans (that is, plans with between $3 million and $50 million in assets) is unforgiving.
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A Second Look at REITs
A depressed REIT market has these ventures shopping for partnerships. Why large public funds are more than willing to oblige
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Mortgage Anyone?
A new service allows defined contribution plan participants to receive home mortgages simply because they are considered good credit risks
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Hedge Fund Primer
Why plan sponsors are establishing direct relationships with prime brokers
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Who Needs an HMO?
Employers are thinking about setting up their own managed health care networks to reduce costs-and aggravation
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Ethics: Drawing the Line
Before you accept that tempting manager invitation, read this
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...
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Private Equity Squeeze
Pointers for smaller funds wanting to join the private equity party
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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
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Twin Fiduciaries
The $20 billion Central States Teamsters' pension has been split between two trustees. How will Goldman and JP Morgan fare?
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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
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Come Together
How Rhône-Poulenc is consolidating pension asset management