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- The Best Retirement Plans
- Whether you're working for a company or self-employed, these tax-favored savings plans can help you get your retirement account growing again. Has the market bottomed? Who knows? But there's one investing principle that's never in doubt: It always makes sense to grab every penny of tax advantage that Uncle Sam...
- Articles 2009-03-16
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- US Airways files for distress termination of pilot defined benefit pension plan and approval of a new pilot defined contribution pension plan; Company commits USD850m over next seven years to fund pilot pensions; New defined contribution plan to adhere to
- M2 PRESSWIRE-31 January 2003-US AIRWAYS: US Airways files for distress termination of pilot defined benefit pension plan and approval of a new pilot defined contribution pension plan; Company commits USD850m over next seven years to fund pilot pensions; New defined contribution plan to adhere to December...
- Research articles 2003-01-31
- Outsourcing defined benefits yielding employer savings. (defined benefit pension plans)
- Do-it-yourself might make sense around the house, but it's rapidly making less and less sense for employers that administer defined benefit pension plans. Employers, which have long out-sourced the administration of their defined contribution plans, aDo-it-yourself might make sense around the house, but it's rapidly...
- Research articles 1997-05-05
- American announces a $22 million contribution to its defined benefit pension plans; Contribution completes 2005 payments, totaling $310 million.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-19 October 2005-American Airlines: American announces a $22 million contribution to its defined benefit pension plans; Contribution completes 2005 payments, totaling $310 millionC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:19102005 FORT WORTH, Texas - American Airlines announced today that it has made...
- Research articles 2005-10-19
- American announces a $74 million contribution to its defined benefit pension plans; Raising total contributions this year to $287 million.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-16 September 2005-American Airlines: American announces a $74 million contribution to its defined benefit pension plans; Raising total contributions this year to $287 millionC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16092005 Fort Worth, Texas - American Airlines announced today that it has ...
- Research articles 2005-09-16
- American announces a $75 million contribution to its defined benefit pension plans.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-22 June 2005-American Airlines: American announces a $75 million contribution to its defined benefit pension plansC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21062005 Fort Worth, Texas - American Airlines announced today that it has made a $75 million contribution to its defined benefit...
- Research articles 2005-06-22
- Alcoa to Eliminate Defined Benefit Pension Plan for New U.S. Hires Effective March 1, 2006
- NEW YORK -- Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today announced it will eliminate its defined benefit pension plan for most new U.S. salaried employees effective March 1, 2006. In its place, the company will offer a competitive, more-flexible and portable 401k defined contribution plan for new hires. The changes will not affect current...
- Research articles 2006-01-16
- Big chill for pensions as plan freezes grow.(News)(WellPoint Inc. and Unisys Corp freezin their defined benefit pension plans)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL What started as a trickle of employers freezing their defined benefit pension plans is becoming a flood. While pension plan freezes once were an unusual occurrence, last week alone, three large employers-including multibilli Byline: JERRY GEISEL ...
- Research articles 2006-03-27
- Defined Benefit Pension Plan
- Defined benefit pension plan is the employee compensation scheme that guarantees a specific benefit level at the retirement of the employee. The same entails costs to the organization. Length of service and amount of salary are important considerations towards determining an employee's pension benefits. The paper examines the dynamics and...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Sears to end defined benefit pension; Retailing giant cites uncertainty, competition as reason for move.(News)(Brief Article)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.-Sears Holdings Corp. is phasing out its defined benefit pension plan. Benefit accruals in the $2.5 billion plan covering the Sears Roebuck & Co. operating unit will cease as of Jan. 1, 2006, with e ...
- Research articles 2005-05-09
- Defined benefits rebounding: study. (defined benefit pension plans; KPMG Peat Marwick survey)
- WASHINGTON - The decline in tax qualified defined benefit pension plans of the 1980s appears to have halted. In fact, 1995 data suggest these plans are increasing in popularity, according to a national survey by KPMG Peat Marwick's compensation and benWASHINGTON - The decline in tax qualified...
- Research articles 1995-06-26
- 412(i) Defined Benefit Pension Plan : The Hottest, True Leverage Pension Plan of the Times
- Due to improvements in Pension Law all of the benefits of the old Defined Benefit Pension Plan are changed as per the new law of 412i Pension Plan, making it perhaps the hottest vehicle for meeting retirement needs, while doing so on a highly cost effective & tax preferential basis....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Could A Bull Market Be A Panacea For Defined Benefit Pension Plans?
- The benefit pension fund accounting rules and regulations directly affect a company's earnings and balance sheets. Still, the company's financial statements and accompanying notes are not enough for determining a company's pension activity. The best solution to the problems surrounding the defined benefits plans is adhering to the bull market....
- White papers 2004-01-13
- NCR to phase out defined benefit pension.(News)(NCR Corp.)(Brief article)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL DAYTON, Ohio-Information technology giant NCR Corp. is phasing out its defined benefit pension plan, completing a process it started two years ago when it closed the $3 billion plan to new and younger employees. After Dec. ...
- Research articles 2006-10-02
- Two more employers freeze defined benefit pension plans.(News)(ArvinMeritor Inc.)(Lincoln Financial Group)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL PHILADELPHIA and TROY, Mich.-Two large employers, Lincoln Financial Group and ArvinMeritor Inc., last week said they will freeze their defined benefit pension plans and enhance their 401k plans. Effective Jan. 1, 2008, emp Byline: JERRY GEISEL ...
- Research articles 2007-05-07
- Many companies will have steep rise in defined-benefit pension expenses. (Pensions).(Brief Article)
- Many employers will have to spend huge sums this year to make up for investment losses in traditional defined-benefit pension plans, according to a new survey from the Chicago office of Deloitte & Touche L.L.P. Executives at 40% of the 80 large and midsize...
- Research articles 2003-02-03
- Underfunded defined benefit pension plans: recent professional and legislative developments
- For nearly twenty years, Financial Accounting Standards FAS Nos. 87, 88 and 132 have been applied by accounting professionals to detail the economic impact of defined benefit pension plans within corporate financial reports. During the latter stages of the 1990s, superior investment returns coupled with relatively high interest rates created...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- UBS Global Asset Management Reports Funding Ratios for Defined Benefit Pension Plans Improve as Interest Rates Rise
- CHICAGO -- UBS Global Asset Management today announced that its US Pension Fund Fitness Tracker, a quarterly estimate of the overall health of a typical US defined benefit pension plan, shows pension funding ratios rose 3% in the second quarter of 2008. After a painful start to the new year,...
- Research articles 2008-07-08
- Budgeting And Monitoring The Risk Of Defined Benefit Pension Funds
- This paper describes a set of mean/variance procedures for setting targets for the risk characteristics of components of a pension fund portfolio and for monitoring the portfolio over time to detect significant deviations from those targets. Due to the correlations of the returns provided by the managers of a typical...
- White papers 2001-09-01
- What Discount Rate Should Be Used to Valued Defined Benefit Pension Liabilities?
- In defined benefit pension plans, the primary function of the actuarial valuation is to determine appropriate contribution rates from the plan sponsor. For this reason, the valuation discount rate is based on the expected return on the assets of the pension fund and the definition of the actuarial liability can...
- White papers 2004-01-01
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