Publisher’s Letter
Retirement Research on page 11. We hope to be hearing
more from them in future issues.
A couple of regular pieces you will see from issue to
issue is a casual, informal interview with an HR or Finance
Executive called 9½ Questions on page 6, a discussion of
the current legal/regulatory landscape entitled Res Ipsa
Loquitur on page 5 (read on to see what that means),
and an in-depth first-person account discussing issues
and challenges facing plan sponsors titled Tales from the
Trenches on page 18.
We hope you enjoy this and we look forward to your
comments and suggestions as we prepare for future issues.
Welcome to the first issue of Confero.
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On behalf of all of the Associates and the Partners of
Westminster Consulting and the staff of Confero we wish
you a healthy and prosperous New Year.
Gabriella Martinez, Westminster Consulting’s Marketing
and Social Media Coordinator is Confero’s Editor-inChief and has created an outstanding first issue.
Our
cover story, Washington’s Impact On The Market on page
14, is particularly timely given the recent election and the
whirlwind around the “fiscal cliff” negotiations.
One of our featured articles discusses the interesting and
scholarly work being done at Boston College’s Center for
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Tom & Sean