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• Saving Private Pension Insurance: An Evaluation of Current Proposals to Shore Up the PBGC

  BNET - 2005-04-01

  PBGC is not a system of private insurance, rather it is in large part a system of social insurance and it has been the approach to date that profitable firms that sponsor DB pensions subsidize firms with weaker prospects. Yet federal sponsorship of this particular social insurance program is unique...

  Tags: Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Pension, Insurance, Financial Planning, Payroll Solutions, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

• Credit Ratings and Pensions Across the FTSE 350

  BNET - 2005-03-01

  Estimated impact of pension liability over enterprise value on credit ratings is perhaps not very large in absolute terms compared to other factors such as corporate leverage or volatility but is indeed statistically significant. This article presents an analysis that shows that credit rating agencies do take into account the...

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• The Taxation of High Earners' Pensions - Key Issues

  BNET - 2004-09-01

  This paper focuses on the Finance Act 2004 that sets out how the Government intends the taxation of pension schemes will be changed from 6 April 2006 A day, including 'unapproved' schemes, such as funded unapproved retirement benefits schemes ('FURBS') and unfunded unapproved retirement benefit schemes ('UURBS'). It summarizes some...

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• Pension Security and the Corporate Convenant

  BNET - 2004-08-01

  The new legislation, coupled with the current funding position of most pension schemes, brings new challenges for trustees when setting or agreeing investment and contribution policies. The paper depicts that pension security depends on the level and certainty of fund collateral, strength of sponsor support and the quality of governance....

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• The Pension Protection Fund

  BNET - 2004-04-01

  This article briefly examines and analyzes whether the PPF - the Pension Protection Fund - is truly viable. This new attempt to bolster occupational pensions might simply encourage companies to find ways of bailing out of defined benefit pension provision. In adverse economic conditions members' pensions will not be protected.

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• Belt-Tightening. (Employment).(survey of Florida businesses concerns cost-cutting measures )(Illustration)

  - 2002-12-01

  Belt-Tightening. Employment Holding off on hiring and reducing staff travel were the chief ways Florida companies cut costs in 2002. One-third of CEO respondents did not take any cost-cutting steps in 2002. Q. Which of these steps, if any, did your organization...

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• Insurance costs surge.(benefits consulting firms)(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)(Directory)

  - 2001-12-01

  INDUSTRY TRENDS Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose an average 11% in 2001, the largest increase in nearly a decade. Source: Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust EMPLOYEE BENEFITS CONSULTANTS Ranked by Full-Time Professionals...

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