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Tobacco Row Under Seige

A sudden upsurge in major lawsuits against tobacco companies has turned previously unconcerned pension funds into shareholder activists.
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Inflation Hedge

With inflation fears growing, some plans are looking at commodities-based investment strategies that promise a hedge against it.
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General Dynamic’s Spin-Off

General Dynamics wanted to cut the fixed costs of running its pension fund. Its longtime treaurer got his own money management firm, with GD as its first client.
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Pension Lobbyists Score a Victory

Pension lobbyists obtained important concessions on PBGC reform legislation this fall. The effort showed how effective they can be in Washington.
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Once More Into the Breach

Public pension advocates are trying once again to get Congress to change onerous deferral cap rules for 457 plans. But the long health care debate has pushed their...
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On Their Own

In-house managers who specialize in derivatives are finding their special skills in demand.
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From Buyouts to Doctors Bills

KKR wants to weld its 18 majority-owned companies into the first nationwide health care coalition. But it may encounter problems regional groupings do not have to face.
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Tempest in the Bullpen

The Teamsters are trying without much success to get other pension funds to stop using Merrill Lynch. But how did the biggest US broker-dealer run afoul of the...
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Comparing Report Cards

As managed care networks emerge as the health care providers of choice for many companies, a collection of standardized formats are being developed to evaulate them.
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No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Despite headlines to the contrary, zero fee bids, like the free lunch, remain confined to myth.
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Phantom Workforce

Employers who use part-time and other contingency workers can realize huge pension and benefits savings. But the legal requirements are complex, and government increasingly frowns on the practice.
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1994 Honor Roll of Pension Plan Sponsors

Plan Sponsor's first survey of corporate pension sponsors reveals that corporate performance and pension plan performance need not be closely related
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The Project Pension Courtship

Pension sponsors are being courted hard by governments and other infrastructure project backers. But it may take much more to pry their dollars loose.
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Clearing the Air on ETIs

After releasing a new interpretive bulletin on ETIs, Labor Department officials hope they have laid pension sponsors' fears to rest about how these investments affect their fiduciary duties
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Homes Away from Home

Cautiously, US pension funds are beginning to invest in overseas real estate. Most favor commingled funds, and the UK is the most popular market thus far.
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Hunting for Returns

The Illinois Teachers fund juggles three distinct overlay strategies to control its currency exposure and minimize downside on its stocks and bonds.
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Taming OTC Derivatives

Washington is abuzz with talk of how to prevent more OTC derivatives disasters. But for pension sponsors, the key may be to get a better understanding of this...
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Plan Sponsor 1994 Global Custody Survey

State Street and Chase take the top spots in the 1994 survey of global custody services. Meanwhile, a select group of European providers appear to be catching up...