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| Compliance |
| Lawsuit Challenges Benefit Cuts Under the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act |
| Plaintiffs seek government compensation for participants “prevented from accessing their own financial property.”Read more > |
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| Investing |
| Is the Risk-Matching Precision of SMAs Worth the Cost and Complexity? |
| Recent Vanguard research explores the defined benefit (DB) plan risk-matching precision behind separately managed accounts (SMAs) and whether other investment vehicles, including collective investment trusts (CITs) and mutual funds, can equate that effectiveness.Read more > |
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| Investing |
| Institutional Investors Need to View ETFs Differently |
| Investors and broker-dealers should start treating exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as an asset class all their own, Kevin McPartland, with Greenwich Associates suggests.Read more > |
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| Investing |
| Fees Negatively Correlated With Public Plans’ Ability to Meet Benchmarks |
| Alternative investments charge higher fees than traditional asset classes such as public equities and fixed income, and according to a study, these fees, in particular, may play a meaningful role in public plan underperformance.Read more > |
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| Investing |
| PanAgora Suggests New Investing Strategy for Public DB Plans |
| “A cap-weighted strategy skews its way toward the largest stocks, but if plan sponsors own equities in a much more balanced way, it will help with stability,” says Bryan Belton, director, multi asset, at PanAgora Asset Management.Read more > |
