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The following
links have been provided for your convenience.
Please note that the listing of a group’s website
here does not imply an endorsement by the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters of a linked
site or its contents. The International
Brotherhood of Teamsters is not responsible for
any information provided on a linked site.
Trustee Education/Resources
Stakeholder Organizations
Financial Glossaries
Institutional Investor
Groups and Services
U.S. Government Agencies
Trustee Education/Resources
The Center for
Working Capital opened its doors in 1997 to
provide pension and benefit fund trustees with
educational opportunities not available elsewhere.
The Center has developed its curriculum with the
oversight of an international
board of directors
composed of public officials, trustees, academics
and members of union movements. This unique blend
of leadership gives the Center its edge in
understanding both the needs of trustees and the
technical requirements of effective pension fund
management.
The AFL-CIO’s
executive pay watch website tracks the
compensation of top executives at America’s
largest corporations as well as gives the user
information about how to “Enron-proof” ones
retirement security.
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The International
Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
http://www.ifebp.org/
The International Foundation of Employee Benefit
Plans is the largest educational association
serving the employee benefits and compensation
industry. For almost 50 years, the International
Foundation has served as the premier source of
education and information to the industry. And
because the International Foundation is a
nonprofit, nonlobbying organization, benefits
and compensation professionals have come to rely
on it for objective, accurate and timely
information.
Total membership includes 35,000 individuals
representing 8,400 multiemployer trust funds,
corporations, public employee groups and
professional advisory firms throughout the
United States and Canada.
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Stakeholder Organizations
Good Jobs First is a national
leader in providing timely, accurate information
to the public, the media, public officials and
economic development professionals on best
practices in state and local job subsidies. Good
Jobs First works with a broad spectrum of
organizations as they seek to ensure that
subsidized businesses are held accountable for
family-wage jobs and other effective results.
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Financial Glossaries
Professor Cambell Harvey’s
hypertextual financial glossary.
An
online financial dictionary
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Institutional Investor
Groups and Services
The Council of
Institutional Investors is an organization of
large public, Taft-Hartley, and corporate pension
funds, which seeks to address investment issues
that affect the size or security of plan assets.
Its objectives are to encourage member funds, as
major shareholders, to take an active role in
protecting plan assets and to help members
increase return on their investments as part of
their fiduciary obligations.
Founded in 1985 in
response to controversial takeover activities that
threatened the financial interests of pension fund
beneficiaries, the group began with 20 member
funds. Today the Council has over 120 pension fund
members whose assets exceed $1 trillion, and more
than 100 honorary international participants and
educational sustainers. It is recognized as a
significant voice for institutional shareholder
interests.
Fund Democracy is
the leading voice for mutual fund shareholders.
It has spoken out on mutual fund issues in
financial publications such as TheStreet.com,
Barron's, SmartMoney.com and others. Fund
Democracy also has engaged in a number of
advocacy initiatives on behalf of mutual fund
shareholders.
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Institutional Shareholder Services
http://www.issproxy.com/
Institutional
Shareholder Services is a provider of proxy voting
and corporate governance services, serving more than
950 clients worldwide. ISS analysts research and
recommend votes for 20,000 shareholder meetings each
year. Other ISS services focus on corporate issuers,
Taft-Hartley funds, and social investors. Proxy
Monitor, the industry’s second leading proxy
services firm, was merged into ISS in July 2001.
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Interfaith Center on
Corporate Responsibility
http://www.iccr.org
ICCR's membership is
an association of 275 faith-based institutional
investors, including national denominations,
religious communities, pension funds, endowments,
hospital corporations, economic development funds
and publishing companies. ICCR and its members press
companies to be socially and environmentally
responsible. Each year ICCR-member religious
institutional investors sponsor over 100 shareholder
resolutions on major social and environmental
issues.
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JMR Financial, Inc.
http://www.jmr-financial.com/teamsters/
JMR/Financial
assists investment managers and plan sponsors by
assuming fiduciary responsibility for all
aspects of the proxy voting process. JMR
fulfills all fiduciary obligations set forth in
the Department of Labor’s Interpretative
Bulletin 94-2 by providing the following
services: Developing proxy voting guidelines,
tracking proxies, Voting proxies in a timely and
consistent manner, Maintaining a record of
votes, and providing reports of voting
activities. The Teamsters Affiliates Pension
Plan uses JMR Financials Services.
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U.S. Government Agencies
This is the agency of the US government that
enforces the Employment Retirement Income Security
Act (ERISA), which is the law that governs and sets
minimum standards for most voluntary established
pension and health and welfare funds. This site
defines the standard to which trustees are held
under their fiduciary responsibilities.
This is the agency of the federal government that is
charged with regulating the securities of publicly
traded companies and the operations of investment
managers. Users are also able to search for
financial statements of publicly traded companies by
company name.
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