Magazine Articles

Table of Contents |December 1999

Multiemployer Manual

What Taft-Hartley trustees might not know about defined contribution plans
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Cashing Out?

When changing jobs, most 401(k) participants still take the money and run
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The Union Label

Why "conservative" Taft-Hartley plans are increasingly copying their corporate counterparts with self-directed DC options and international investments
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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
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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...
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Unilver Case: Miscast?

The new emphasis among British fund managers on risk—and their long-standing preference for active management—are 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
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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
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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
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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
Editorial |December 1999

Service or Performance?

When it comes to rating their defined benefit managers, readers are hard-pressed to say which mattersmore: manager service or investment return.
Q/A |December 1999

Rhumbline’s options: Ron Golz’s opinion

In mid-1996, Rhumbline Advisers, the Boston-based quantitative investment management firm created in 1990 by State Street alumnus JD Nelson, was hit hard by what the firm described as...