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Matrix Of Corruption

Matrix Of Corruption

by Edward Jay Epstein

Wed, Jun 10, 2009

Journalist and scholar Ed Epstein examines New York's ongoing public pension scandal, and the “placement agents” who use their political contacts, financial experience, powers of persuasion, and other means to extract pension fund money for private equity firms.

NAVA Steps Up Its Lobbying Game

by Kerry Pechter

Wed, Jun 10, 2009

NAVA has moved from the Virginia suburbs to downtown Washington, the better to lobby Congress on behalf of annuity manufacturers and distributors. But the Association for Insured Retirement Solutions, as NAVA has called itself for the past two years, won't reveal its new name or acronym until July.