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- Mellon and Shinsei form Japanese joint venture.
- Byline: Pirkko Juntunen Mellon Financial Corporation, the global financial services giant, and Japan's Shinsei Bank are creating an investment management joint venture for the Japanese pensions market.The as-yet unnamed joint venture will be an investment advisory and trust company and will launch later...
- Research articles 2002-08-15
- HSAs: The Next Wave - Their Potential to Drive Consumer Engagement Propels Them Into the Large Employer Market
- When Congress authorized the creation of Health Savings Accounts HSAs at the end of 2003 as part of Medicare overhaul legislation, employers of all sizes took notice. With double-digit health insurance premium increases from 2001 to 2003, even financially healthy employers started investigating the addition of a consumer-directed health plan...
- White papers 2005-02-25
- Process and Outcome - New Clarity in Achieving Reasonable Executive Compensation
- One common legacy of the dot.com boom and various corporate scandals of the last few years is regulators' new focus on responsible corporate governance, specifically on reasonable executive compensation. This paper explores the idea of reasonable compensation, presents a brief history of legislative and judicial interpretations of the concept, and...
- White papers 2005-06-21
- Mellon's Option Expensing Update: FASB's Preliminary Decisions and Strategies for Cost Mitigation
- Recent preliminary decisions made by the Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB as part of its Equity-Based Compensation EBC project have shed light on their intended direction in the ongoing option expensing debate. The FASB's preliminary decisions provide those companies that have not yet voluntarily adopted the expensing treatment of SFAS...
- White papers 2004-02-05
- Employee's Tax-Deferrable Income: When Plans Compete for It, Can Employees Win?
- When it comes to tax-deferrable income, employees can win if their employer helps them understand the true value of each type of savings or coverage offered to them, depending on their financial situation and where they are in their career. As long as employers are able to recognize and respond...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Check 21 (the Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act) Potential Opportunities and Implications for Financial Institutions
- Check 21 aims to facilitate the broader use of electronic check processing, without requiring any bank to change its current check collection practices. Its many proponents believe that the law represents an important step in streamlining check processing and, in doing so, reducing some of the risks inherent in today's...
- White papers 2004-06-10
- Using Technology to Optimize Short-Term Investing
- Short-term investing is a key function in most corporate treasury departments. Corporate investors work to preserve principal and maintain liquidity while maximizing returns on their excess cash. This article focuses on helping corporate investors better understand what they should consider when selecting a new online system or evaluating their current...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Investment Manager Outsourcing: Enhancing Your Competitive Advantage
- Outsourcing options that address and solve specific client need and requirements are wide-ranging. Investment managers may desire to outsource one or more highly discrete activities such as trade automation of performance measurement, or they may desire to outsource the entire back and middle office, thus concentrating almost exclusively on their...
- White papers 2005-01-29
- Not All Treasury Portals Are Created Equal
- Financial service providers FSPs have responded to market demand with numerous online, short-term investment tools designed to let companies quickly execute certain transactions and, in some cases, view related information. This article points out that while some of the early services disappointed users due to their lack of robust investment...
- White papers 2005-01-29
- The Brave New World of Not-for-Profit Governance and Compensation
- In the turbulent health care environment, hospital boards are increasingly expected to be independent, transparent and ethically grounded enough to avoid conflicts of interest. Moreover, a series of highly publicized scandals, media exposes, government investigations and lawsuits have added new elements of risk to board service. This paper examines how...
- White papers 2005-03-22
- Process And Outcome: New Clarity In Achieving Reasonable Executive Compensation
- One common legacy of the dot.com boom and various corporate scandals of the last few years is regulators' new focus on responsible corporate governance, specifically on reasonable executive compensation. This paper explores the idea of reasonable compensation, presents a brief history of legislative and judicial interpretations of the concept, and...
- White papers 2004-07-21
- Buck Consultants Proposals on Private Sector Single - Employer Pension Plan Funding and PBGC Reform
- Many factors have contributed to the decline in defined benefit plans. The universe of defined benefit plans includes single employer and multi-employer plans, governmental and private sector plans, all of which raise different issues. This article puts forth a proposal that addresses only the problems of defined benefit plans sponsored...
- White papers 2005-06-10
- Mellon's FASB Statement 123 Update: FASB Releases Share-Based Payment Exposure Draft
- On March 31, 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB released its much anticipated exposure draft ED highlighting the proposed accounting rules for all "Share-Based Payment" compensation awards. The FASB intends to release its final standard in the fourth quarter of 2004, and require adoption for fiscal years beginning after...
- White papers 2004-07-15
- What is eProcurement? eProcurement 101
- The article asserts that sometimes referred to as business-to-business eCommerce or eBusiness, eProcurement is the online purchase of products and services. There are typically two categories of eProcurement— buy-side and sell-side. Buy-side eProcurement is the most common, and is a buyercentric model in which a buyer connects to his or...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Stock Options As Executive Incentives: Have We Gone Too Far?
- Stock options are instruments through which individuals are granted stake in an organization. Recent years have seen rapid emergence of the practice of dispensing stock options to executives of the organization. The paper examines the aforesaid scenario and discusses issues involved therein. The concept of stock options is also discussed....
- Presentations 2002-06-18
- Analysis and Commentary on 2004 Survey of Cash Balance Plans
- This report provides analysis and commentary on Mellon's 2004 Survey of Cash Balance Plans. It focuses on key survey results, particularly those that relate to subjects that have been controversial or that have public policy implications. Perhaps the most important observation that can be drawn from the survey is that...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Inventing Tomorrow While Operating Today: HR's Leadership Role in Organizational Spin-Offs
- Organizational spin-offs offer companies the chance to "reinvent" the business while keeping a core of the familiar. Yet the opportunity in a spin-off is balanced by the challenges. These include splitting up the two organizations, refocusing the Parent, and launching new company, all the while keeping both organizations operating profitably...
- White papers 2005-06-24
- Executive Retirement Programs at River Branch General - A Guide Into a Safe Harbor for Not-for-Profit Hospitals
- Trustees at not-for-profit health care organizations must approve and maintain the executive retirement programs for the organization. Executives want a program that will allow them to focus on running the organization rather than planning for their needs in retirement. This white paper clarifies the process by helping trustees and executives...
- White papers 2004-07-20
- Responding to Mandatory Option Expensing: A Mellon HR&IS Flash Survey
- For quite sometime the market has been anticipating the Financial Accounting Standards BoardÆs FASB changes in the rules for stock-based compensation accounting. FASB released an Exposure Draft ED of new rules on March 31, 2004. This article summarizes some of the key provisions of this draft and also provides the...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Delivering Justice - With An Aging Workforce
- The State of California Judicial Branch the Branch, is one of the largest and most diverse court systems in the world. The branch needed to maintain that leadership when up to 75 percent of its managers and executives are eligible to retire within the next 10 years. It faced the...
- White papers 2005-06-24
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