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‘Fessing Up Made Easier

The IRS is making it easier for plan sponsor to confess their administrative errors and make amends,without running the risk of tax disqualification, by liberalizing the rules for...

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The 20-Year Gusher

As a means to preserve and enhance the state's vast oil wealth, the Alaska Permanent Fund has succeeded. But what happens when oil revenues run short, and a...

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Long-Short

Using alpha transport strategies to maximize outperformance and control asset mix

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Futures Shock

Why some large plans, endowments are giving managed futures a second look

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Canadian Cafeteria Plan

FPPs allow defined benefit plan participants to buy extra pension benefits

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Getting in Harmony

States hope uniform public fund law proposal will forestall federal interference

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Ravenous Rivals

With hungry economies and populations of one billion or more, China and India are commanding investor attention. But is enough capital available to satiate both?

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Egypt’s Prospects as an Investment Opportunity

Egypt's sanguine economic prospects suggest it as a future leading performer. Much of the infrastructure this ancient market will need to move ahead is already in place.

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Opening the Oyster

After relaxing some of the restrictions that have kept foreign investors from prying open its stock market, Korea stands poised to dive into the millennium.

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Right On Target

Swelling market capitalization, stock exchanges and privatization have slid emerging markets from the fringe to the cutting edge of international mutual fund portfolios.

Table of Contents |February 1997