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- ADMINISTRATION SPECULATION; Towers Perrin tie to pension posts.
- Among the names circulating in Washington for top pension spots in the Bush administration are two men with affiliations to Towers Perrin. John Woyke, a principal in the consulting firm's Valhalla, N.Y., headquarters is being mentioned as a likely Among the names circulating...
- Research articles 2001-01-08
- Pension plan sponsors vocal on benchmark proposal.(News)
- Byline: VINEETA ANAND WASHINGTON-Corporate America is waging a lobbying campaign to avert a Treasury Department proposal that could require many of the nation's top companies to report higher pension liabilities and shovel more money into their pe Byline: VINEETA ANAND ...
- Research articles 2003-07-07
- Call to arms; BENCHMARK BATTLE: Employers lobby over Treasury proposal.(News)
- Byline: Vineeta Anand WASHINGTON - Corporate America is waging a take-no-prisoners-style lobbying campaign to avert a Treasury Department proposal that could require many of the nation's top companies to report higher pension liabilities and shove Byline: Vineeta Anand WASHINGTON -...
- Research articles 2003-06-23
- No help: Benchmark proposal earns harsh criticism; Bush administration not addressing flaws of pension system, critics say.(News)
- Byline: Vineeta Anand WASHINGTON - Some academics, financial economists and actuaries are slamming the Bush administration's proposal to replace the 30-year Treasury with an index of high-grade corporate bonds as the benchmark for calculating pens Byline: Vineeta Anand WASHINGTON -...
- Research articles 2003-07-21
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- Labor Department Testifies Before House Education and the Workforce Committee on Administration's Pension Reform Proposal
- WASHINGTON, March 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Assistant Secretary of Labor Ann L. Combs today testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce to discuss the Bush Administration's pension reform proposal to strengthen the retirement security oWASHINGTON, March 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Assistant Secretary of Labor Ann L. Combs...
- Research articles 2005-03-02
- Labor Department Testifies Before House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Administration's Pension Reform Proposal
- WASHINGTON, March 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Ann L. Combs, assistant secretary of labor for employee benefits security, today testified before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures regarding the Bush Administration's pension reform prWASHINGTON, March 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Ann L. Combs, assistant secretary of labor for...
- Research articles 2005-03-08
- Administration stymies pension change effort; No new valuation rule recommended.(News)(Bush administration, pension liabilities)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL WASHINGTON-The Bush administration's unwillingness to make a permanent recommendation on how employers should value pension liabilities comes as a blow to business groups, which have been vigorously lobbying the administration and Congress to make a change. Citing the...
- Research articles 2003-05-05
- Pension Crisis in the United States - and the Rest of the Defined Benefit World
- Retirement issues have drawn significant attention in the United States over the past year. Social Security and Medicare reform are high on the Bush administration's agenda, highlighting weaknesses in the current social retirement system. The Bush administration and the US Congress have proposed tighter pension funding regulations, intended to strengthen...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Sharp divisions mark pension reform debate
- Pension reform proposals laid out by the Bush Administration and employer groups highlight a great schism in what the regulators and the regulated believe government should do to protect the ailing single-employer defined benefit system. Pension reform proposals laid out by the Bush Administration and employer groups highlight a...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Briefs: Grassley blasts `howling' over Bush's proposals.( )(Sen. Charles Grassley)
- WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, blasted both employers and union groups for their "predictable howling'' in response to the Bush administration's pension reform proposal, which he called &qu WASHINGTON - Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate...
- Research articles 2005-03-07
- 2005 Pension Outlook: Mixed Signals
- The paper informs that the start of the New Year combined with the recent proposal from the Bush administration on pension reform provides an opportune time to revisit the status of US corporate pension plans. Long-term interest rates have remained depressed a negative for these plans. However, strong asset returns,...
- White papers 2005-01-14
- Likelihood of higher PBGC premium hikes looms.(pension benefit guaranty corp)
- Earlier this year, the Bush Administration proposed a package of reforms to current pension funding rules. There have been several bills introduced, but the Pension Protection Act of 2005 (H.R. 2830) and The Pension Security and Transparency Act of 2 Earlier this year, the Bush Administration...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Does reform ask too much of sponsors? Risks of trying to improve DB and PBGC funding.(defined benefit)(Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.)
- Byline: Mike Johnston Now that the Bush administration has announced a broad overview of proposed new pension funding rules, it's worth asking whether these proposals if adopted in total will be helpful or harmful to the pension system overall. Byline: Mike Johnston...
- Research articles 2005-03-21
- Washington: Profitable plans would pay price for Bush PBGC bailout; Researchers at Watson Wyatt say the administration's proposal could doom healthy defined benefit funds.(News)
- Byline: Vineeta Anand WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's proposal to encourage employers to fully fund their pension plans and shore up the PBGC seems likely to backfire. The administration's goal was to ensure that companies set aside enou Byline: Vineeta...
- Research articles 2005-04-04
- Late News; Bush drops objections to pension funding bill.
- Amid a big Bush administration concession, congressional negotiators and their staffs began meeting last week to hammer out a compromise pension funding reform bill. Both the House and Senate have passed bills that for the next two years would allow Amid a big Bush administration...
- Research articles 2004-03-15
- Pension proposal to hit financially healthy employers.(FOCUS: Small-Business Banking and Finance)
- Pemiums that financially healthy companies pay to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. for their defined-benefit plans would increase by more than twice those of their weaker counterparts under the Bush administration's proposal to overhaul pension fun Pemiums that financially healthy companies pay to the Pension ...
- Research articles 2005-05-23
- Administration, business seeking pension remedies
- Correction ran 5/13/2005: A story Thursday misstated the effect of the United Airlines default on the deficit of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. The deficit is $23.3billion including the United pensions. In an unusual clash between traditional allies, Big Business and President Bush are debating the fate of troubled...
- Research articles 2005-05-12
- Bush officials lobby for strong pension reform.(Tax Watch)
- Byline: Mark Battersby In a recent New York Times Op-Ed article, officials from the Bush administration called on Congress to "act now to secure the pension promises made to America's workers.'' The Bush administration reportedly plans to oppose legislation "that weakens ...
- Research articles 2005-12-12
- Was there a leak? Cash balance plan brouhaha; A senior Treasury official is caught in the middle as court rulings and legislators heat up the battle over the disputed pension plans.(News)
- Byline: Vineeta Anand WASHINGTON - William F. Sweetnam Jr., a senior pension official at the Treasury Department, might have become a pawn in a high-stakes campaign to block the Bush administration from reversing earlier guidance on cash balance p Byline: Vineeta Anand ...
- Research articles 2003-09-15
- Exodus from equities; Executives at major corporations say the pension reform proposals would lead to plans' shift to bonds from stocks.
- Byline: Vineeta Anand WASHINGTON - Executives at many of the nation's largest corporations would shift their pension funds out of stocks and into long-duration bonds within the next three years if the Bush administration's proposals to shore up th Byline: Vineeta Anand ...
- Research articles 2005-09-05
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