January 2017

70th Annual National Conference

The 70th Annual National Conference will be held May 2-3, 2017 at the Drake Hotel in downtown Chicago on the Magnificent Mile. The theme is The World of Retirement. Learn how to nagivage the changing world at the conference. In 2017 PSCA will be celebrating its 70th anniversary! Come celebrate with us at the National Conference, and learn the newest trends in definied contribution, non-qualified plans and HSAs from thought leaders and your peers. Click here for more information

A Trillion-Dollar Question: Why Don’t More Women Run Mutual Funds?

If you stop to consider who runs the thousands of mutual funds in America, you might conjure up an image of offices full of men. Then your brain might auto-correct to include some fund managers who are women. But how many? Perhaps you’d estimate that about 30 percent to 35 percent of fund managers are female — which is similar to the number of doctors and lawyers who are women, according to the Census Bureau. In fact, a paltry 9.4 percent...

A Rare Corner of Finance Where Women Dominate

Once a year, a small group of executives who control trillions of dollars in American companies meet for lunch in Manhattan. Among the things they discuss: pushing for greater say in how companies are run. It is an elite gathering, but you will not see a single man in a suit in the room. The event, called the Women in Governance lunch, underscores a rare corner in finance where women dominate. Women hold the top positions in corporate governance at many...

Es conveniente liberar régimen de inversión: Principal

Una vez que Donald Trump tome posesión como el nuevo presidente de Estados Unidos, sería conveniente que el régimen de inversión de las administradoras de fondos para el retiro (afore) se flexibilice para buscar mejores rendimientos en los mercados, indicó Mariano Ugarte del Solar, director general interino de Principal Afore. “Ésta es la mejor coyuntura para hablar de flexibilizar el régimen de inversión. Hoy todas las afores están al límite de lo que se permite invertir en el exterior que es...