The Eddy Awards
Issue date: March 17, 2008
Stories from the report
Eddy Awards celebrate defined contribution
job well done
Increasing participation rates and explaining new automatic enrollment programs dominated the campaigns of many of the 2008 Eddy Award winners.
Fees, default options dominate defined contribution industry talk
Fees and qualified default investment options were among the hottest topics at Pensions & Investments' 16th annual East Coast conference earlier this month in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
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Complete list of Eddy winners
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- The S&P 500 touched bear territory after the Labor Dept. reported a sixth-straight month of job losses but in shortened trading before the Independence Day holiday, prices recovered as the same report suggested the Fed will keep rates unchanged. Posted: July 3, 2:32 PM
- With the U.S. economy stalled due to an increase in oil prices and the slow-down of international growth, Northern Trust Global Investments is advising clients to overweight cash and stay away from many kinds of stocks. Posted: July 2, 3:00 PM
- In a letter to a predicted President Obama, Bill Gross ponders why anyone would want to be president when the nation will be facing its first trillion-dollar deficit. Posted: June 30, 10:04 AM
- A New York firm is working to bring efficiencies to the trade claims market, using its new acquisition, a company known as T-Rex, to a $75 billion market that just $3 billion traded over the past 12 months. Posted: June 27, 4:03 PM
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