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A new analytic tool, developed by JP Morgan Investment Management and four plan sponsors, attempts to quantify plan participants' priorities.

Foundations and endowments are using mutual funds to extend professional money management over as much of their portfolios as possible.

CALPERS' corporate governance team produces a target list of a dozen "low-performing" companies to work with every year. Here is how they do it.

David Bronner, Alabama's public pension chief, is a maverick investor and political kingpin. How far will he go?

PBGC head seeks balanced solution for underfunding

Plan sponsors try to make Japan's corporate boards listen.

Non-team sports, too, are making progress in the pension area. But they face a different set of challenges.

Often regarded as the Canadian market's 500-pound gorilla, the Caisse de depot has emerged as a major global investor. In the process, it hopes to set a place...

404(c) now gives defined contribution plan sponsors limited safeguards against lawsuits by beneficiaries. But compliance standards are vague, and no one knows just how far the protections extend.

Employee sophistication is a big concern for plans that want to qualify for 404(c) protection. Some are exploring more than one route to bring their participants up to...

Some leading multinationals are finding ways to consolidate their North American and foreign pensions.

A new industry has grown up to serve investment managers seeking tax-exempt business. How well they serve plan sponsors is another question.

When institutional investors speak of political risk, they almost always have in mind the emerging markets of Asia, Latin America, Eastern and Southern Europe, the Middle East, and...

Beset by FAS 106 obligations, corporate benefit plans could use more help from their employees with funding. But without health benefit portability this may be hard to come...

The Common Fund is trying to boost performance by College and university endowments in some new ways-through education, and by promoting global investing.

Activist pension funds have some powerful new allies in unions like the Teamsters.

Taking a cue from their US Counterparts, Canadian public pension sponsors are learning to be shareholder activists.

Amid a market that refuses to recover some Japanese pension funds are getting tough with their brokers and investment managers. But the network of cozy relationships is a...

Fixed-income analytics afford pension sponsors a more sophisticated knowledge of their portfolios. But few are ready to move up the curve.

Pension funds in search of improved performance measurement products now have new providers custodians. But the traditional providers, consultants, are fighting back.