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- Best 401(k) Moves When You Leave a Job
- Leaving a company means you need to decide what to do with your 401k savings ? and the right answer is worth tens of thousands of dollars. These seven rules will help you minimize your taxes and maximize your nest egg. 1. Do Not Cash Out ...
- Articles 2009-11-24
- Investor Behavior and the Purchase of Company Stock in 401(k) plans - The Importance of Plan Design
- The paper insights into the 401k plans, company stock, behavioral finance and their portfolio choice. The number of investment alternatives offered, n, and whether the company requires some of the match to be in company stock are key factors of the share of total contributions in company stock. It cannot...
- White papers 2002-01-08
- Company Stock and Retirement Plan Diversification
- "This article explores several aspects regarding the role of company stock in U.S. pension plans. After surveying the legal and fiduciary status of company stock, we briefly review the role of Employee Stock Ownership Plans ESOPs and combined 401k/ESOP or KSOP plans. Second, we analyze holding patterns of company...
- White papers 2002-03-04
- Investing In International Small Company Stocks
- Article talks about the effect come up with the investment made in international small company stock. It states that the smaller the stocks the higher the return so that the highest returns were from the very smallest stocks in the market. The smaller company effect thus became one of the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Employee's Investment Decisions About Company Stock
- This article studies the relationship between past returns on a company's stock and the level of investment in that stock by the participants in that company's 401k plan. Using data on 94,191 plan participants, it analyzes several different decision points: the initial fraction of savings allocated to company stock, the...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Company Stock in Pension Plans: How Costly Is It?
- Employees often hold substantial levels of company stock in their defined contribution pension plans, a practice widely recognized as risky but nonetheless common in high-tech firms and blue-chips alike. This paper investigates the extent of company stock ownership with defined contribution pension plans and estimates its cost, finding that employee...
- White papers 2002-03-01
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- Federal-mogul Corp.: Company stops contributing its stock to 401(k); Auto parts manufacturer also freezes the company stock investment option.(Brief Article)
- SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - Federal-Mogul Corp. has switched its matching contribution to its $550 million 401k plan to cash from company stock and has frozen the company stock investment option. Federal-Mogul executives made the move because the company SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - Federal-Mogul Corp. has switched...
- Research articles 2001-09-03
- international paper: COMPANY STOCK RESTRICTIONS EASED IN 401(K); Investment option makeover also part of planned changes.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- STAMFORD, Conn. - International Paper Co. is relaxing restrictions on company stock in its $3.7 billion 401k plan. Starting April 1, only half of the employer match will be in company stock; participants will be able to choose among other plan o STAMFORD,...
- Research articles 2002-02-18
- GOING DOWN: Plummeting price of company stock contributes to drop in DC plan assets.(Statistical Data Included)
- High allocations to company stock punished participants in many large defined contribution plans in 2001. In a survey of 24 companies with at least 47% of plan assets invested in company stock, participants' assets fell a total of $30.5 billion, a High allocations...
- Research articles 2002-02-04
- STRONG TENDENCY: 401(k) matches spur more company stock contributions.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- LOS ANGELES - Participants in 401k plans view employer matches in company stock as a recommendation that they invest their own plan contributions in company stock, according to a recent study. ``The tendency for employees to put their own contributions into company stock is...
- Research articles 2000-10-02
- DOL spurs action: Outside fiduciaries sought; Lawsuits over stock-price declines force many businesses to hire firms to oversee 401(k)'s company stock options.(News)(Department of Labor)
- Byline: Vineeta Anand WASHINGTON - Companies facing class-action lawsuits over steep drops in stock prices are rushing to hire outside fiduciaries to manage their 401k plans' company stock investment options. Among them are Sprint Corp., Qwest Byline: Vineeta Anand ...
- Research articles 2004-06-14
- The Role of Company Stock in a Defined Contribution Plan
- This paper focuses on the role the company stock may play in retirement plans sponsored by publicly traded companies. The rules for tax-qualified plans that hold company stock in closely held companies particularly Subchapter S corporations are quite different and can be very attractive to the employer. But many of...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- BAD RAP: Enron not the full story on company stock, P&I shows ; Shares at 31 of 40 companies top the S&P 500 index over a decade.(Brief Article)
- The bad rap given to employer stock in 401k plans following the Enron Corp. debacle is undeserved for many plans, a Pensions & Investments study concludes. Although stocks have suffered over the past 18 months, company stock in many plans ou The bad...
- Research articles 2002-04-15
- Employers can keep company stock in retirement plans
- Employers may breathe easier, as two recent court cases indicate that fiduciaries are safe to leave company stock in a retirement plan, even if the stock is tanking. In DiFelice v. US Airways, employees sued the airline, claiming it breached its fiduciary Employers may breathe easier, as two recent court...
- Research articles 2006-09-15
- Space Services Company Stock Reaching For The Stars.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-30 September 2005-Emerging Stock Report: Space Services Company Stock Reaching For The StarsC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:30092005 The Emerging Stock Report is following SPACEHAB, Incorporated (Nasdaq:SPAB) The Company announced yesterday that its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary has been awarded...
- Research articles 2005-09-30
- 401(k) Matching Contributions in Company Stock: Costs and Benefits for Firms and Workers
- This paper examines why some employers provide matching contributions to 401k plans in company stock and explores the implications of match policy for employee retirement wealth. Unlike stock option grants to non-executives, a firm's decision to match in company stock does not appear to be strongly correlated with cash flow...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Ahead of the pack: Participants may sell company stock during `blackout' period; ChevronTexaco gives employees right to move intomoney markets as DC plan switches record keepers.(Brief Article)
- SAN FRANCISCO - ChevronTexaco Corp. is giving plan participants the option to shift assets from company stock to money market funds during the ``blackout'' period in which 401k records are switched over to the company's new record keeper, Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO - ChevronTexaco Corp. is...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Pulitzer chairman has steadily sold off his company stock since early 2000.
- By Tim McLaughlin, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 3--Pulitzer Inc. won't say what or who is behind a possible sale of the company. But one thing is clear: Chairman Michael E. Pulitzer has shown the biggest appetite for selling...
- Research articles 2004-12-03
- XTend Medical (XMDC) Continues Investigation Into Short Selling of Company Stock
- XTend Medical Corporation (PINKSHEETS: XMDC) recently had a conference call with FINRA regarding the solicitation of shareholders by brokers to short the company stock as well as any possible trading improprieties with regards to share price. The company released the following statement: "On Tuesday, January 8th, I had a...
- Research articles 2008-01-10
- Company Stock and Pension Plan Diversification
- This chapter makes two contributions. First, it develops a measure of the diversification level in a DC plan participant's portfolio. This measure computes how much additional risk reduction can be had by reallocating investments among the choices permitted within the DC plan, without changing the expected return of the currently...
- White papers 2002-10-07
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