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• Tipping Point for Cash-Balance Plans?

  BNET - 2006-04-18

  The cash-balance plan is a "Hybrid" that's re-emerging as a middle ground between defined-benefit and defined-contribution plans. Legally it's a DB plan (the employer, not the employee, takes on the financial risk of achieving a preset benefit), but it's structured like a DC plan (somewhat like a 401k, it features...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., 401(k), Retirement Plans, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Investment, Human Resources, Finance

• View From Asia: India Won't Benefit Fully From the Amazing Productivity of Its Companies Unless It Builds a Better Infrastructure for Business

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  India's companies surpass Chinese enterprises in productivity, although most of that productivity is being exported, via the service sector, to distant markets. According to a UBS report, between 1998 and 2003 the average return on capital employed for an Indian firm was 17 percent. China's was 11 percent. India outpaces...

  Tags: India, CFO Publishing Corp., Benefits, Investment, Strategy, Human Resources, Finance, Management

• Sprucing Up the 401(k): With Other Retirement Vehicles in Dire Shape, Plan Sponsors Are Rethinking Their Defined-Contribution Offerings

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  Social Security is projected to become insolvent in 2041, according to its trustees. Traditional pension plans are terminated, frozen, or underfunded with increasing regularity. That leaves the 401k plan to carry the bulk of the retirement load. The trouble is, though, plenty of research suggests that 401k plans, as they...

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• Rx for Merger Trauma: Amid a Resurgence in M&A, a Veteran Offers Lessons Learned From a Difficult Merger

  BNET - 2006-03-15

  Beth Israel Hospital and New England Deaconess Hospital were peaceful neighbors for decades in the nation's medical mecca, Boston. Then, in 1996, the two merged - and for five long years, staffers fought over issues large and small amid a poisonous culture clash. Doctors and nurses quit in droves. By...

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• Merge Right: Numbers Don't Drive Deals, People Do

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  Companies routinely overlook human-capital issues during deal negotiations or during the early stages of integration. Mistakes such as failing to retain key managers, putting the wrong workers in important jobs, neglecting to equalize pay and benefits, or missing human-capital liabilities can torpedo a merger and turn synergy projections into an...

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• By Popular Demand: Why Buy HR Applications When You Can Rent Them?

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  Growth comes at a price - and often it's a company's human-resources department that has to pay it. Consider Genmar Holdings Inc., a $1 billion maker of recreational boats sold under such brands as Wellcraft, Seaswirl, and Larson. A multiyear acquisition spree made it difficult for the company to obtain...

  Tags: Human Resources, CFO Publishing Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Branding, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Marketing

• Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Build Me a Plan: While Simplified Investment Choices Can Boost Employee Participation in a 401(k), Nothing Meets That Goal as Well as a Robust Cash or Stock Contribution That Matches Part of What the Employee Saves

  BNET - 2006-01-12

  While there are many variations in matching formulas, an employer pay-in of 50 percent up to the first 6 percent of salary that the employee contributes is increasingly considered to be the standard. Matches should be stretched out across as big a percentage of pay as possible to move workers...

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• Winds of Change

  BNET - 2005-12-01

  Catastrophe bonds, a rarely used vehicle for managing disaster risks, have attracted more interest in the wake of 2005's hurricane season. To date, only three companies - Tokyo Disneyland, the French utility EDF, and Vivendi's Universal Studios in Los Angeles - have issued them. The bonds are issued via Special-Purpose...

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• Avoiding 401(k) Contributions Is Risky Business: Employees' Retirement Income Could Fall Short of Their Projected Needs by as Much as 73 Percentage Points

  BNET - 2005-11-29

  If one does not contribute to his or her 401k plan, one probably will not have enough money to maintain the current lifestyle. That's one of the findings in a new study released by Hewitt Associates. According to the research, employees who do not contribute to their 401k plan can...

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• 'Opt-Out' Plaintiffs Settle With WorldCom

  BNET - 2005-10-19

  Five New York City public pension funds that did not join in the $6.1 billion WorldCom class-action settlement have settled their own lawsuits for a total of $78.9 million. The pension funds lost more than $200 million on WorldCom stock and bond investments after the company, now called MCI, filed...

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