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Poll: CEO payouts in a Bad Year?: The news is filled with stories of CEOs receiving huge payouts. The news is also filled with stories of companies performing poorly in the fragile economy. When you add the two together, the sum often equals bad P.R. for the CEO. But is this wrong? Should a...; Tags: William Baker, payout; Blog posts 2008-04-11
Poll: CEO payouts in a Bad Year?: Poll: CEO Payouts in a Bad Year?We all Grow togetherA good sntiment when applied in an organization by teh leadership. Part of the problem is that CEO's and their management team rarely push down teh incentive compensation plan in structure to the individuals trying to grow teh business. ...; Tags: Corporate governance, Benefits, Investment, Financial accounting, Sales force management, payout, bad year; Discussion threads 2008-04-14
Target CEO Pay: One Comp Formula That Works: Executive pay has become such an easy target these days -- not just for business journalists but all three presidential candidates -- that it's easy to lose sight of what really goes into the final compensation figure that shows up in all the headlines. Case in point was last week's...; Tags: Incentive, Compensation, Performance, Stock, Payout, Target, Incentive Payout, Benefits, Investment, Human Resources, Finance, Carlos Bergfeld; Blog posts 2008-04-12
Hedge Fund Managers Set New payout Records in 2007: BOSTON (Reuters) - A handful of the world's top hedge fund managers took home 10-figure paychecks last year that set records for the highest-ever payouts on Wall Street. John Paulson, who ran a medium-sized hedge fund until last year, ranks as the loosely...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, hedge fund, payout, fund manager, trader, paycheck, Boston, housing market, pension fund, Thomson Reuters Corp., survey, bank, asset, strategy, Web site, Web; News items 2008-04-16
Dividends Are In Again: Experts suggest that the latest reduction in tax rate has led to the emergence of dividends. A growing number of companies, especially large financial firms have increased the payouts by huge percentages. And, there is no reason to believe the trend will abate anytime soon. The huge payouts are not...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, CFO Publishing Corp., payout, dividend, financial, tax; White papers 2003-07-18

Defined Benefits, Loose Accounting: From the executive summary: ‘For the most part, defined-benefit plans are relics-dusty vestiges of a bygone era when unions were able to negotiate plum retirement plans from employers. Under a defined-benefit setup, a plan sponsor guarantees a specific payout to plan participants. By contrast, defined-contribution schemes-401 (k) plans, for instance,...; Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., payout, accounting, benefit; White papers 2002-05-20
Relationship Between Deductibles and Expected payouts for Insurance Policies: Most insurance policies provide for a "deductible" clause. The level of the deductible is of interest both to the insurer and the insured. In this paper, we examine the effects of the deductible on the expected payout of an insurance policy. Thus, a deductible is advantageous to both the insurer...; Tags: Financial Planning, payout, insurance company, insurance; White papers 2000-09-27

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Patterns in payout Policy and payout Channel Choice of UK Firms in the 1990s: The paper examines the payout policy of UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange during the 1990s. It complements the existing payout literature studies by analyzing jointly the trends in dividends and share repurchases. The role of share repurchases is increasing, but dividends still constitute a vast proportion of...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Tilburg University, dividend, payout, shareholder; White papers 2005-02-03
Institutional Holdings and payout Policy: This paper examines the relation between institutional holdings and payout policy in U.S. public firms. It is found that payout policy affects institutional holdings. Institutions avoid firms that do not pay dividends. However, among dividend paying firms, they prefer firms that pay fewer dividends. The evidence indicates that institutions prefer...; Tags: Financial Planning, Cornell University, dividend, payout; White papers 2004-08-24
Credit Implications of the payout Annuity Market: "Our paper will examine the growth prospects and accompanying risks for the insurance industry in the payout annuity marketplace. By answering market demands in the payout annuity market and providing equity market participation with downside protection over the life of an annuitant, an insurance company exposes itself to a...; Tags: Financial Planning, Investment, annuity, insurance, reinsurance, risk, risk management, equity; White papers 2002-10-15
Earnings and Expected Returns: The aggregate dividend payout ratio forecasts aggregate excess returns on both stocks and corporate bonds in post-war US data. Both high corporate profits and high stock prices forecast low excess returns on equities. When the payout ratio is high, expected returns are high. The payout ratio's correlation with business conditions...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, earnings, bond, stock price, stock, dividend, equity; White papers 1996-10-16
Merging Asset Allocation And Longevity Insurance: An Optimal Perspective On payout Annuities: This paper revisits the importance of longevity insurance—while discussing the concerns with a strategy consisting purely of fixed payout annuities—and then addresses the proper asset allocation between conventional financial assets and payout annuity products. Its focus is on maximizing a suitably defined objective function in an intuitive, comprehensible and practical...; Tags: Asset management, Investment, Financial Planning Association, annuity, asset allocation, asset, modeling, insurance, health care, strategy, financial; White papers 2003-06-01
Dividend payout Characteristics of U.K. Property Companies: This article employing panel data methodology, examines the dividend policy of property companies quoted on the Stock Exchange. Between 1986 and 1998, the quoted property sector paid out, on average, 44% of its net earnings as dividends. Similar to firms in other sectors, real estate corporations smooth their dividend payout...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, dividend, real estate, stock; White papers 2001-07-16
Capital Structure & payout Policy: The capital structure of a company comprises of the permanent long-term financing of the company, including long-term debt, common stock, preferred stock, and retained earnings. Dividend is a taxable payment declared by a company's board of directors and given to its shareholders out of the company's current or retained earnings....; Tags: Capital structures, Financial accounting, capital structure, dividend, earnings, financing, payment, shareholder, stock; Presentations 2003-01-01
Executive Financial Incentives and payout Policy: Firm Responses to the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut: Using the 2003 reduction in dividend tax rates to identify an exogenous change in the after-tax value of dividends to shareholders, this paper tests whether the composition of executives' stock and option holdings is an important determinant of payout policy. It finds that when top executives have greater stock ownership,...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, National Bureau of Economic Research, dividend, liquidity, incentive, stock, shareholder; White papers 2004-12-01
Can Buybacks be a Product of Shorter Shareholder Horizons?: This paper examines how shareholder investment horizons influence firms' payout decisions. It finds that U.S. firms held by short-term institutional investors have a higher propensity to buybacks shares instead of using dividends. Firm managers seem to respond to the preferred payout policy of investors in their shareholder base. Share buybacks...; Tags: Financial accounting, Financial Planning, buyback, dividend, shareholder, investor, tax, stock; White papers 2004-10-18
The Dividend and Share Repurchase Policies of Canadian Firms: Empirical Evidence Based on a New Research Design: This article empirically investigates dividend and share repurchase policies of Canadian firms. It uses several logit regression analyses to test the structure and determinants of the dividend and share repurchase choice. The results are consistent with a structure in which the company first decides whether it wants to pay out...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Erasmus University Rotterdam, dividend, payout, shareholder, tax; White papers 2001-09-01
Calculating Dividend Cover: Dividend cover measures a company’s ability to pay dividends to stockholders. Specifically, it calculates how many times over the company’s net after-tax profits could have paid for dividends to its common stockholders.A similar calculation, payout ratio identifies the percentage of net profit paid to stockholders in the form of dividends,...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, BNET Editorial, dividend, earnings per share, net profit, investor, allocation, shareholder, tax, industry; Articles 2007-07-30
Stock Market Returns in the Long Run: Participating in the Real Economy: This paper estimates the forward-looking long-term equity risk premium using a combination of the historical and the supply side approaches. It decomposes the 1926-2000 historical equity returns into supply factors including inflation, earnings, dividends, price to earnings ratio, dividend payout ratio, book value, return on equity, and GDP per capita....; Tags: Investment, Financial Planning, Financial services, Financial accounting, dividend, equity, inflation, earnings, stock market, stock; White papers 2002-07-09
What’s Next for Executive Compensation?: This article, briefly reviews approaches for addressing some of the compensation challenges that have arisen because of the current environment. Some of these challenges include: underwater Options, high dilution, possibility of no bonus payout etc. These have been discussed in detail. Thus, compensation practices have always been shaped by economic...; Tags: Benefits, Aon Corp., compensation, environment, strategy, financial; White papers 2002-02-01