Magazine Articles

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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...

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Portrait of a Retiree: C David Cornell

70, Retired college professor and administrator

Editorial |October 1994

The Total Fund Concept

Editorial Comment

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Plan Sponsor October 1994 Letters

Plansponsor October1994 Letters

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LACERA Gets Aggressive

Los Angeles County employees hope that a pension obligation bond, plus a more aggressive asset allocation strategy, will bring financial health to their plan.

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The End of the Line

CALPERS is looking at slimming down its weighty RFP questionnaires and relaxing aspects of its screening process.

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Going to the Voters

Public pension issues will be debated in several key state races this fall.

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Daily Valuation Dilemma

Daily valuation is now wildly popular. Some some worry that it raises costs, adds new recordkeeping stresses, and, possibly, harms investment performance.

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A Wider Gateway

New IRS regulations are intended to make it easier for employers to provide different benefits packages for separate lines of business. Yet significant problems still exist, critics say.

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Simplification Revisited

Pension simplification is back on the table in Congress this year. But the new bill contains troubling elements, and is fighting for attention with higher-profile issues.

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If At First…

Illinois' latest attempt to cure unfunded pension obligation woes looks to have the best chance of success yet. But a hefty tax increase would likely be part of...

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Profile: Jenny Stephens

Southwest Airlines

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Mixed Reviews

Twenty years after ERISA's passage, the US private pension system is very different from what the law's framers imagined. If its central element-the defined benefit plan-is to be...

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Twenty Year Anniversary of ERISA: ERISA has Encouraged Flexibility

ERISA has encouraged both better portfolio structures and the creation of innovative financial instruments, asserts the private pension system's chief regulator.

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A Legislative Draftsman’s Perspective

ERISA succeeded in accomplishing its chief objectives, says one of its authors. But times have changed, and a great debate about the future of private pension development is...

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The Employers Changing Role

The accent is on self-reliance as employers large and small are rethinking their old paternalistic role, including the firmness of their commitment to providing retirement benefits, says EBRI's...

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Tweny Years of ERISA: Improved Coverage and Participation Needed

A pension system that covers only one out of every two workers will be more open to attack, and less able to defend itself as a national priority,...

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Preemption Taken to the Extreme

ERISA allows the states to enact laws in certain areas that are important to multi-employer plans. But these are being seriously threatened by courts that interpret ERISA's preemption...

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Hydro’s Shake-Up

Faced with a budget crunch and rising employee benefit liabilities, Ontario Hydro has turned to one of Bay Street's biggest money managers to carry out a sweeping reorganization...

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Budapest to Bay Street

A skeptic of government promises, Andrew Sarlos is now charged with preserving and extending such promises to some 18,000 Ontario public utility workers.