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- Does Law Need Changing to Protect Company Pensions?
- Questions are being raised if traditional pension plans that companies hold for their retired workers are viable or need refunding. Some critics are even raising the specter that pensioners might get only a fraction of the money due them or nothing at all unless changes are made....
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
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- BA, Iberia Merger Hinges on Pension Deficit
- By Tracy Rucinski and Rhys Jones MADRID (Reuters UK) - British Airways' pension fund deficit could yet scupper its planned merger with Spain's Iberia, as the UK airline still has to agree the size of the multi-billion pound shortfall with the fund's trustees. Iberia, which on Friday posted a bigger...
- News items 2009-11-13
- A Fresh Look at Pension Risks
- The financing of pension liabilities is now firmly a boardroom issue for most multinationals. Over the last couple of years, many chief executives would be forgiven for thinking of pensions as a naughty child seeking attention by continually creating bad news and difficulties even for the well-run corporation. Having muscled...
- White papers 2005-06-03
- Pension Funding: A Fresh Look at a Growing Crisis
- Pension funding has been getting a lot of attention lately. Hardly a day goes by without a new pension issue making front-page news. From the beleaguered pension plans of the airline industry to the potential bankruptcy and possible federal bailout of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation PBGC, pension issues have...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Delta and pilots taking pension issue to court
- ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines Inc. and its pilots are about to battle in court over a key issue in the carrier's bankruptcy case -- pensions. The pilots want the nation's third-largest carrier to continue making minimum contributions to their pension plan and certain payments to higher-paid retirees,...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- US Airways gets final OK on termination of pension
- ALEXANDRIA, Va. AP -- A federal judge on Friday gave his final approval to US Airways' termination of its pilots' pension plan, clearing the way for the airline to emerge from bankruptcy protection next week. The pension issue had been the last hurdle to the airline emergence. On...
- Research articles 2003-03-29
- CONFIDENTIAL MEMO: Pension issue upsets actors' unions merger; Producer questions if SAG fund would subsidize AFTRA.(News)(Screen Actors Guild)
- Byline: Phyllis Feinberg The proposed merger of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists could be derailed by concerns by one SAG pension plan management trustee about merging the two unions' pension funds. Byline: Phyllis Feinberg...
- Research articles 2003-06-09
- The GM Pension Plan: A $100 Billion Problem Swept Under the Rug
- Five or so years ago, when General Motors was simply financially challenged rather than bankrupt, financial writers joked that GM was in truth a huge pension plan, funded by an automobile operation. It wasn't far off the mark: in 2004, each active worker was outnumbered by 2.5 GM retirees, and...
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Worry About Your Pension, Not Your Pension’s Insurer
- Last week the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the federal agency that pays your pension if your employer can't, told the Senate Select Committee on Aging that its assets fall $33.5 billion short of its obligations. In other words, the perennially underfunded agency wanted to let everyone know that it wasn't...
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Funding relief may imperil wider reform; Controversy swirls on pension proposal.(News)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL WASHINGTON-An escalating controversy over a proposal to exempt some employers from quickly making up pension plan shortfalls is raising fears that the issue could threaten the passage of wider pension funding reforms. Led b Byline: JERRY GEISEL...
- Research articles 2003-11-17
- ONES TO WATCH: Recent mergers could spell big changes in top 200 listing.(listing of merged companies with best pension funds)(Brief Article)
- The 3-week-old millennium could usher in new leaders among the top 200 pension funds. Because pension funds usually are combined well after corporate mergers take place, a number of companies on this issue's list could move further up in the ranki The 3-week-old...
- Research articles 2001-01-22
- Tackling the pension funding crisis. (Washington Insights).(A pension funding issue in Washington cries out for immediate Congressional attention)
- A pension funding issue in Washington cries out for immediate Congressional attention. Failure to act could cost American businesses with defined benefit plans hundreds of millions of dollars, maybe even billions, beginning in 2004. By law, companies are required to use the 30-year Treasury...
- Research articles 2003-03-01
- With 90 Percent of Pension Plans in Shortfall, Issue Gets Congressional Ear.
- The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 16--WASHINGTON--Pension accounting may sound like a subject best addressed behind closed doors by people wielding financial calculators. But in recent months the issue has gained more attention in boardrooms and in Washington....
- Research articles 2003-07-16
- The PBGC relents. (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp report on underfunded pensions)(Brief Article)
- 00-00-0000 THE PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY Corp. PBGC is drawing cheers from employers for announcing that it no longer will issue its list of the 50 companies with the highest underfunded ... 00-00-0000 THE PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY Corp. PBGC is drawing cheers from employers...
- Research articles 1997-10-06
- RBS poised to scale back pension benefits
- Royal Bank of Scotland, the part-nationalised bank that controversially gave Sir Fred Goodwin, its former chief executive, a pension pot valued at £16m, is scaling back pension benefits for about 62,500 employees. Our multimedia feature explores the dilemmas faced by individual savers, companies and governments and offers potential solutions to...
- News items 2009-08-26
- BSkyB attacks plan for BT to raise prices to cut pension deficit
- Broadcaster angered by Ofcom proposal that BT could charge rivals more for access to services BSkyB has condemned proposals by the telecoms regulator that could allow BT to charge its rivals more for access to its telephone lines to help plug the former monopoly's £6.8bn pension...
- News items 2009-12-01
- British Airways Pension Deficit Swells
- By Matt Scuffham and Rhys JonesLONDON/MADRID (Reuters UK) - British Airways' pension deficit more than doubled to 3.7 billion pounds at the end of March, it revealed on Monday, higher than analysts expected but not seen as big enough to derail a merger with Spain's Iberia.Shares in BA were down...
- News items 2009-12-17
- Stopgap pension bill moves forward.(News)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL WASHINGTON-Congress is one step closer to passing stopgap pension funding reform legislation as a compromise on a controversial bailout issue may be nearing. Tax legislation passed last week by the House of Representatives Byline: JERRY GEISEL...
- Research articles 2003-11-24
- Airlines' pension woes help reforms take off; Financial troubles of one business sector spark rethink for all.(News)
- Byline: JERRY GEISEL As the nation's airlines fight battles on many fronts, one huge issue that had been hanging over them-how to fund their enormous pension plan liabilities-is virtually gone. Over the past four years, all of the nation's major Byline:...
- Research articles 2007-07-09
- House passes pension reform; Approved by wide margin.(Government Activity)
- WASHINGTON-The next few weeks could be crucial for long-awaited pension reform. That's because the Senate will be taking up the issue against the backdrop of the House's 407-24 vote on May 2 in favor of H.R. 10-better known as the Portman-Cardin p WASHINGTON-The...
- Research articles 2001-05-07
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