Magazine Articles

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Three-year plan

How Mead's push to centralize benefits led to total benefits outsourcing
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MEWAs and phony unions

New tools for the battle against multiemployer health plan fraud?
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Frank Lyons

Retired immigration judge, 73
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And now, out come the knives

The MASTERS/PRIM merger is expected to save Massachusetts millions of dollars a year. One key savings: Shrinking the outside manager roster.
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Trading on the Front

Investor suspicions about traditional markets have helped alternative market systems flourish. But a new system, OptiMark, promises to go further, reducing trading to a low-cost technical process focused...
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Scientific revolution

How recent advances in supercomputing, plus a unique new algorithm, made OptiMark possible.
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Real Estates information age

Leery of the next market downturn, investors are demanding more and better information from real estate managers. Our roundtable participants discussed what plan sponsors want, and how they...
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Energy Project Finance

Steady, predictable cash flows start to attract pension investment.
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The numbers game:

SEC lets money managers use more historical data in prospectuses
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Multinational pensions

New products are being developed for multinationals' globe-trotting execs
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John VanRavestein

Retired sales engineer, J.C. Steele & Sons, 63
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Pension Simplification and Much More

Many of the pension simplification provisions in HR 3448 previously appeared in the budget tax hill that President Clinton vetoed last year.