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As customized currency benchmarks multiply and active tactical hedging takes off, the debate is heating up on how international investors should set their hedge ratios.

The AARP runs an 850,000-participant fund program with just one manager, no competitive bidding process, and no third-party evaluation service.

As a new national health care system is hammered out, public fund sponsors worry that their needs will not be addressed-though they may be left footing the bill.

Puerto Rico residents love deferred compensation plans. But setting them up is not easy-for one thing, it means satisfying two overlapping tax regimes.

GTE believes it can add 1% to its overall pension portfolio return through derivatives strategies run almost entirely in-house

Two lawsuits could mark the beginning of a stormy debate over whether same-sex domestic partners are entitled to spousal pension benefits.

Direct access brokers give institutional investors quick access to the Big Board floor, plus a continuing picture of action on the exchange.

A New York congressman has revived the question of "short-termism" in pension fund investing. Two reports by EBRI and CIEBA seek to refute the allegation.

Electronic pension benefits payment is better for both the plan sponsor and the retiree, proponents say. So why are they so slow to move into the paperless age?

In an effort to better manage costs, five of Canada's biggest public plans are sharing intimate data on their administrative expenses.

Euroclear and Cedel now offer limited direct access to corporate pensions and treasuries for tri-party repos. But thus far, few corporates appear eager to cut out the banks...

The current debate over economically targeted investments is mired in a bog of half-truths. Each side focuses on one part of the issue, and ignores or mischaracterizes the...

74, Retired administrative officer, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare

Some $41 billion of federally regulated pensions have broader investment parameters since Canada adopted the "prudent person" principle last summer

How a Texas engineering firm redesigned its 401(k), adding new and customized fund options, and persuaded participants to go beyond GICs.

Tennessee's retirement system runs its currency overlay program in-house. The results have been mostly a wash, but the program's manager expects that to change.

Two court decisions send mixed signals as to whether ERISA preempts states from slapping hospital rate-setting schemes on self-insured benefits plans.

Treasury auction reforms have created a more efficient, automated market. But most pension investors still find the environment less than friendly.

Treasury auction reforms have created a more efficient, automated market. But most pension investors still find the environment less than friendly.

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