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Bargain Shoppers
As Japanese investors unload US real estate, pension plans look to snap it up
Magazine Articles
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Seeing is believing
What on-site visits can reveal about prospective outsourcing providers
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What’s new?
Start-ups favor 401(k)s, but spinoffs are sticking with defined benefit plans
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Countdown for multinationals
Long-awaited 404A regs will set foreign pension deductions
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Derivatives guidance
DoL letter emphasizes risk management, fiduciary education, stress testing
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Risk matters
Using downside risk analysis to set plan options and help participants make choices
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The Meaning of Risk
Under existing Securities and Exchange Commission rules, mutual funds are allowed to provide very general information about risk
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Inflated expectations?
US Treasury's inflation-indexed bonds could prove a mixed blessing
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New Ballgame
GASB will require government employers to prefund retiree health benefits
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Watered down
How a measure to curb disability retirement abuse faded in Massachusetts
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Beyond alliances
What consultant and master trustees hope to offer plan sponsors by merging
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Accounting Practices and Investing
Why improved accounting practices will help investors
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You are what you measure
In simpler days, it was enough for pension sponsors to measure annual return or compare that return with actuarial assumptions in order to demonstrate performance.
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Hedging Your Bets
Using puts and calls to minimize the risk of big company stock holdings
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What’s Wrong With SEPs?
Why a "simplified" retirement savings plan has not taken off
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Toward A New Paradigm For Managing Large Institutional Assets
Two schools of investment management, with sharply contrasting objectives, goals, and approaches, dominate the field today-traditional institutional management and non-traditional management (primarily hedge funds). But despite their past...