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• 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...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., 401(k) Plan, Stock, Matchmaker, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance

• The Cost of Loyalty: Even Now, Employees Still Invest Their 401(k)s in Company Shares, and They Still Sue if the Stock Goes South

  BNET - 2004-12-13

  Ever since the Enron debacle, in which employee retirement accounts collectively lost more than $1 billion, workers have been warned about the downside of putting 401k money solely in their company's stock. But, according to Hewitt Associates, the practice is alive and well. In fact, some 84 percent of the...

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• The Cost of Loyalty

  BNET - 2004-12-13

  Ever since the Enron debacle, in which employee retirement accounts collectively lost more than $1 billion, workers have been warned about the downside of putting 401k money solely in their company's stock. But, according to Hewitt Associates, the practice is alive and well. In fact, some 84 percent of the...

  Tags: Hewitt Associates LLC, CFO Publishing Corp., 401(k) Plan, Stock, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Investment, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance

• Changing Fortunes: The 2004 Compensation Survey

  BNET - 2004-10-01

  From the executive summary: ‘The endgame in the decade-long debate over stock options is finally playing out. The Financial Accounting Standards Board has an expensing requirement ready to go, although it may delay implementation. The International Accounting Standards Board's standard on expensing goes into effect. And, while efforts to derail...

  Tags: Stock Option, Compensation, CFO Publishing Corp., Stock, International Accounting Standards Board, Stock Options, Benefits, Investment, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance

• How Low Is Too Low?

  BNET - 2003-12-11

  From the executive summary: ‘Conventional wisdom holds that institutional investors, particularly mutual funds, automatically unload all holdings of stocks trading. As a result, finance executives may worry that wholesale institutional selling could put further pressure on a teetering share price. If a stock lingers too long at that level, sell-side...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Stock, Investor, Mutual Funds, Investment, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Benefits, Retirement Plans, Finance

• The Price They're Paid

  BNET - 2003-11-01

  From the executive summary: ‘Stock options, of course, still have their supporters, especially among executives at start-ups and technology companies. At such outfits, the end of option grants would hurt rank-and-file employees more than it would senior executives. If employers start issuing restricted stock rather than options to regular workers,...

  Tags: Stock Option, CFO Publishing Corp., Stock, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance

• Exec Stock Options: Put 'Em To A Vote

  BNET - 2003-06-30

  Different employee benefits are discussed in this article as per SEC. The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved a requirement ordering public companies to get shareholder approval before doling out stock-option packages to executives, directors, or employees. As SEC requires companies to get shareholder approval for stock option grants. Under...

  Tags: Stock Option, CFO Publishing Corp., Stock, SEC, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance

• A Little Respect For Stock Purchases Under Sec. 338

  BNET - 2003-03-19

  The article says that under Sec. 338h(10) of the federal Tax Code, parties involved in a qualified stock purchase can execute a joint election when the acquired corporation is a member of an affiliated group, or an 'S' corporation. That is, of course, if the transaction, or series of transactions,...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Corporation, Stock, Investment, Asset Management, Finance, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• Scrambled Nest Eggs: Deferred-Compensation Legislation and Likely Rule Changes in Stock Option Accounting Could Shake Up Executive Retirement Plans

  BNET - 2002-10-08

  Regardless of what regulators or members of Congress do, senior executives typically face a perpetual retirement planning burden in deciding how to deal with their huge holdings of company stock. Often, there's little chance of diversification until after retirement because of company restrictions on exercising options and selling stock. What's...

  Tags: Stock Option, Retirement, CFO Publishing Corp., Stock, Investment, Finance

• Is Pension Plan Flush Enough?

  BNET - 2002-07-26

  Plunging stock price spawn worries that retirement plans are under funded. For years, corporations have sat on over funded pension funds thanks to stock prices that rose much more than actuaries had predicted. Now after more than two years of plummeting stock prices, companies are starting to worry that their...

  Tags: Stock Price, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., CFO Publishing Corp., Stock, Pension Plan, Investment, Financial Accounting, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Finance, Human Resources