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Hamilton Lane is an independent financial institution that provides private equity asset management services to sophisticated investors worldwide. With offices in several U.S. cities and around the world, Hamilton Lane offers a full range of investment products and services that enable clients to participate in the private equity asset class on a customized basis.
Schroders is a global asset management firm with over 200 years of investment experience and with $283.9 billion assets under management as of September 30, 2011. As an active, research-driven manager with a singular focus on investment excellence, Schroders’ success is founded on a dedication to thought leadership, world-class resources and a research capability that sets us apart from the competition.
Schroders provides a full range of domestic, international and global investment management products: from traditional cash management, to equity and fixed income strategies, as well as a variety of quantitative and active alpha solutions and alternative investments designed to meet the evolving needs of sophisticated investors. Our investment capabilities span global, developed and emerging markets, and are supported by extensive in-house resources that include research teams, analysts, economists and portfolio managers - a network of more than 345 professionals throughout 32 offices in 25 countries – one of the largest office networks of any dedicated asset management company.
EmblemHealth companies, GHI and HIP, are proud to have long-standing partnerships with New York labor unions. For over 70 years, we have been working closely with these labor unions in order to provide health plans and products that work as hard as you do. EmblemHealth offers a diverse product portfolio built around the specific needs of your members to benefit hard-working Americans and their families. Our goal is to offer choice, affordability and access to quality health care. EmblemHealth companies employ a union workforce and have developed innovative products designed for labor unions. Please ask us about it.
For more than 75 years, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans and organized labor have worked together to provide high-quality, affordable healthcare benefits for American workers, retirees and their families. The healthcare system is complex and the National Labor Office (NLO) helps union representatives understand new/available health plan options. The NLO can assist in gaining access to critical information to satisfy the needs of labor and management as you bargain healthcare together. The NLO is the liaison between unions and Plans to ensure that Blue products meet the labor community’s needs and the bargaining objectives. www.bcbs.com/nlo or (202) 626-4815.
EPIC Hearing Healthcare represents the nation’s first true specialty care carve out for the vital sense of hearing. The EPIC Hearing Service Plans range from an ASO Savings Plan to a Fully Insured Plan that can be combined with Vision benefits at a single premium; all plans give access to a national network of ENT’s and audiologists-- the largest of its kind in the country-- and fixed, reduced pricing on all major brand hearing aid technology. With over 35 million Americans suffering from hearing loss, the majority of which are below retirement age, EPIC is dedicated to expanding hearing healthcare horizons. Hear better, Live fully.
Wellington Management is an investment adviser to more than 2,000 institutions in over 50 countries. Our mission as a firm is simple: to exceed the investment objectives and service expectations of our clients around the world. With US$676 billion* in client assets under management, we offer a broad range of equity, fixed income, alternative, and multi-asset investment approaches. We are a globally integrated community of investment professionals. Our most distinctive strength is our proprietary research, which is shared across all areas of the organization. We have offices in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Since its founding in 1935, William Blair & Company, L.L.C. has focused on a bottom-up, fundamentally driven approach to investments for our actively managed strategies. Our 100% active employee-owned investment firm has always been conservatively managed with a commitment to the long-term goals of our clients. Our Investment Management group oversees $38.6 billion in assets (as of September 30, 2011) across equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives organized by geographies, market capitalizations and styles. The majority of our client assets have been entrusted to us by financial institutions and institutional plan sponsors including corporations, endowments & foundations, public entities, and Taft-Hartley plans. We manage over $750 million for Taft-Hartley clients, including three national pension funds and are dedicated to helping Taft-Hartley funds and, ultimately, plan members achieve their investment objectives.
SkyBridge Capital II, LLC ("SkyBridge") is an alternative asset manager with approximately $5.7 billion in total assets under advisement or management as of October 31, 2011. SkyBridge has been providing investment management services directly or through its predecessor, SkyBridge Capital, LLC, since 2005. The firm offers investment services across four business lines addressing a wide range of market participants from individual retail investors to large institutions. These business lines are Commingled Funds of Funds Products, Separate Accounts, Hedge Fund Seeding and Hedge Fund Advisory Services.
North Sky Capital has two decades of private equity investment experience. Our primary goal is to provide clients with innovative investment strategies. We regularly offer funds focused in CleanTech, Venture Capital, Leveraged Buyout, Renewable Energy, and Infrastructure investment sectors. Clients include pension plans (corporate, public and Taft-Hartley), college endowments, foundations, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals.
ABS Investment Management LLC (“ABS”) is an independent fund of hedge funds manager specializing in equity long/short strategies. ABS Principals – Alain De Coster, Laurence Russian and Guilherme Valle – have worked together investing in hedge funds in a similar function since 1994. ABS began operations in the fall of 2002 and the company manages over USD $3.7 billion of hedge fund assets as of September 30, 2011 for institutional and high net worth clients in the Americas, Europe and Asia from its offices in Greenwich, Zurich and Hong Kong.
Cutwater Asset Management is a client-focused and solutions-based investment advisor focused exclusively on fixed income investments. With $38 billion in assets under management, Cutwater Asset Management ranks among the world's largest fixed-income investment managers. Cutwater's model combines world-class investment expertise and risk management capabilities with exceptional client service, in-depth consultation, and extensive interaction between clients and the investment team. Our clients include state and local governments, financial institutions, pension funds, unions, insurance companies, and corporations. For more information visit our web site, www.cutwater.com.
K2 provides integrated hedge fund solutions to hundreds of institutional and private investors across the globe. K2’s investment philosophy is centered on a steadfast commitment to the prudent allocation of client capital while seeking to generate steady asymmetric returns in various economic environments. Products include discretionary and non-discretionary customized investment programs as well as commingled funds of hedge funds. Co-founded by William A. Douglass III and David C. Saunders in 1994, K2 is registered with the SEC as an Investment Adviser and has $10 billion in assets under management as of October 1, 2011.
Envision Pharmaceutical Services, Inc is a full service pharmacy benefits management company that delivers…proven savings and proven customer satisfaction. Proven savings as our business model is based on transparency and full disclosure, guaranteeing 100% pass through pricing of all pharmaceutical manufacturer rebates and administrative fees at the point of sale. Proven customer satisfaction as Envision has received the highest customer satisfaction rating from the Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute’s Annual PBM Customer Satisfaction Survey three years in a row. Additionally, our affiliate Envision Insurance Company, has a national Prescription Drug Plan which enables us to offer you a Medicare Part D product as well as an Employer Group Waiver Plan for your retirees. Envision is truly a “different” PBM!
Amalgamated Life Insurance Company is a provider of insurance solutions for working people and a member of the Amalgamated Family of Companies which also includes Amalgamated Agency, a property and casualty brokerage firm assisting with risk management solutions; Alicare, a third party administrator providing a wide range of customized solutions to benefit funds and employers; Alicare Medical Management, a medical management firm offering market responsive programs and services; Alicomp, a computer outsourcing company; and AliGraphics, a printing and graphics company. Founded in 1943, Amalgamated Life Insurance Company serves diverse businesses, unions, and health and welfare funds. The Amalgamated Family of Companies generates over $800 million in annual premium, premium equivalencies and fee for service.
When a plan receives or decides to stop receiving the 28% RDS subsidy it does not mean their obligation stops. Medicare has budgeted significant dollars for compliance staff and auditors. There is a six-year responsibility of the plan to allow CMS to audit, and they will.
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Founded in 1989 by Harvard Medical School professors, Best Doctors, Inc. is transforming and improving health care. The global company, headquartered in Boston, serves more than 30 million members in every major region of the world. Best Doctors works with the best five percent of doctors to find the right diagnoses and right treatments, and seamlessly integrates its trusted services with employers’ other health-related benefits. In addition to its clinical advocacy in the US, Best Doctors designs and implements international insurance programs that help people be sure they get the best care, and the right care. For further information, visit Best Doctors at www.bestdoctors.com or call (800) 223-5003.
Transamerica Affinity Services, part of Transamerica Life & Protection, offers Retiree Medical and Prescription Drug solutions that enable organizations to provide valuable long-term coverage for their retirees. Transamerica works with brokers, consultants, third party administrators and managing general underwriters to place supplemental life and health insurance products with groups such as employers, unions, government entities, and other organizations. Transamerica’s suite of products can help resolve some of the big benefit issues employers are faced with today, including meeting FASB and GASB requirements. Ask us about Retiree Medical and Prescription Drug solutions for 2012 - 2013.
The AFL-CIO Investment Trust Corporation provides marketing and investor relations services for the AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust, as well as works in cooperation with the AFL-CIO and ASB Capital Management in the strategic marketing of the AFL-CIO Equity Index Fund. The AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust is a commercial real estate equity fund that manages approximately $3 billion in real estate assets on behalf of over 160 Taft-Hartley and public pension funds, while maintaining the strongest labor policies in the industry. The AFL-CIO Equity Index Fund, opened in 2011, provides similar pension funds with an ultra-low cost way to invest in the stock market while ensuring proxy voting in accordance with AFL-CIO guidelines.
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