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Financial Advisor June 2006 Alan Lavine |
Storm Clouds For Municipal Bonds Underfunded liabilities loom as a threat to governments' finances. |
CFO February 1, 2009 Alix Stuart |
Plenty of Pain, a Dash of Relief A new law lets pension plans smooth out assets over two years, easing the crash of 2008. But it's a pittance in the face of falling corporate bond rates. |
BusinessWeek April 1, 2010 Jason Clenfield |
A Tear in Japan's Safety Net Moves by JAL and Mitsubishi to cut pensions may signal the demise of a trust-based corporate culture. |
BusinessWeek January 9, 2006 |
A New Abacus For Pensions The Financial Accounting Standards Board rules on post-retirement accounting are changing. Benefits could suffer. |
BusinessWeek September 23, 2010 Levitt & Turner |
How to Clean Up the Muni Bond Market Solutions to defaulting bonds, unfunded liabilities, and fraudulent investment information. |
The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
2009: End of the Road for Pensions? The final nail in the coffin for pensions may come from 2008's terrible stock market performance. |
The Motley Fool November 2, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
This Will Cause the Next Financial Crisis Pension funds are getting desperate, turning to risky strategies to make minimal cash. |
The Motley Fool January 26, 2011 Selena Maranjian |
Pension Perils Take a Turn for the Better Your company might not stiff your retirement after all. |
CFO June 1, 2008 David M. Katz |
Better Safe Than Underfunded Some pension sponsors are hitching their investments to actual pension liabilities using bonds rather than aiming for huge returns. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Pensions, Social Security Face Challenges Pension plans' funded status and the outlook for Social Security continue to appear bleak. |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Big Investors Are Fleeing Stocks. Should You? Pension funds are moving to bonds. |
National Defense October 2012 Karen L. Manos |
Contractors Charging the Federal Government For Pension Contributions Is Not Corporate Welfare In full election-year mode, news media have been awash in articles, blogs and reports urging Congress to stop the "corporate welfare" of reimbursing federal contractors' pension costs. |
The Motley Fool January 21, 2004 Robert Brokamp |
Can You Count on Your Pension? Pensions are still underfunded, and the federal agency that backs them isn't looking too good either. |
FDIC FYI January 13, 2004 Miller & Ayres |
Could a Bull Market Be a Panacea for Defined Benefit Pension Plans? This report describes the serious challenges and outlook facing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and corporate defined benefit pension plans, and examines the effects on financial institutions insured by the FDIC. |
Finance & Development September 1, 2002 De Ferranti et al. |
The Future of Pension Reform in Latin America The Latin American countries are at the vanguard of global pension reform. Eight have reformed their pension systems in the past 20 years, and additional reforms are now being considered throughout the region. Did the earlier reforms work? What should new reforms aim for? And are the ideas driving the reforms sound? |
Registered Rep. July 13, 2012 Mark Miller |
Should Your Retiree Take the Lump Sum? Or Go with a "Pension Annuity?" Leon LaBrecque is one busy financial planner these days. He has been meeting with retirees from Ford Motor Co. and General Motors to help guide them through one of most important financial decisions of their lives: whether to accept a lump sum buyout of their pensions. |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2006 Tim Hanson |
The 2016 Retirement Manual The decline of passive retirement planning is not so much a problem as an opportunity. When you're in charge of your own money, you pick where and how you want to invest. |
The Motley Fool October 11, 2004 Chris Mallon |
The Perils of Pensions Once a no-lose situation for both management and employees, defined-benefit pension plans are now threatening to cripple some U.S. corporations. But the piper must be paid, and it's investors who will ultimately suffer. |
CFO Joseph McCafferty |
Pension Plans The party's over. Why plan like it's 1999? While plenty of plans are now underfunded, the true picture could show underfundings at crisis levels. |
Reason June 2005 Julian Sanchez |
Pension Tension Our other retirement time bomb. In fiscal year 2004, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which covers more than 34 million workers and retirees, paid out some $3 billion in benefits to pension plan beneficiaries---more than twice what it took in from employers in premiums. |
Finance & Development September 1, 2001 Nicholas Barr |
The Truth About Pension Reform Aging populations in industrial and transition countries have provoked heated debate about pension reform -- in particular, about the desirability of abandoning pay-as-you-go schemes in favor of private, funded pensions... |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Biggest Threat Yet to Your Retirement The huge losses last year in the stock market have created massive problems for millions of people expecting their employers to provide them with substantial income after they retire. |
BusinessWeek January 30, 2006 Nanette Byrnes |
Retiree Accounting: More Than Meets The Eye Companies may soon be forced to put their unfunded pension and other retiree benefit promises on their balance sheets. |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Why Public Pensions Are Doomed Public-sector pensions will disappear in the near future. |
CFO August 1, 2004 Alix Nyberg |
Investment Insight Is Corporate America adequately managing employee pension funds? |
Financial Planning June 1, 2012 Allan S. Roth |
Muni Forecast: Lots of Clouds Despite Whitney's prediction of a near-term disaster, it will probably take a decade or two to test whether states and municipalities can meet their obligations to both retirees and bondholders. The biggest single factor in the interim will be stock market returns. |
Knowledge@Wharton February 12, 2003 |
A "Perfect Storm" of Circumstances Batters Corporate Pension Plans Questions raised about accounting for pension funds have prompted some Wharton faculty and other experts to ask if rules promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, as well as the Internal Revenue Code itself, may have played a significant part in the strife. |
Investment Advisor September 2006 |
Pension Act Signed While pension experts say the recently passed Pension Protection Act of 2006 will indeed help remedy the funding problems that have plagued defined benefit pension plans, they doubt that it will resolve the insolvency woes of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation. |
Financial Advisor January 2011 Alan Lavine |
Will Munis Deflate Again? The muni market has been volatile, with governments facing steep revenue declines and fears of higher interest rates. |
Investment Advisor May 2009 Melanie Waddell |
New IRS DB Funding Rules The Internal Revenue Service recently issued regulatory guidance on defined benefit pension plans that provides some needed relief for DB plan sponsors. |
CFO January 1, 2003 Joseph McCafferty |
Funding Fun House Critics say current accounting lets companies distort the picture they present of pension plan performance. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 17, 2014 Michael Blanding |
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions Although new defined benefit plans are rare, many firms must still fund commitments to retirees. Luis M. Viceira looks at the pension landscape and the recent emergence of insurance companies as potential saviors. |
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 Nanette Byrnes |
Comparing Pensions Around the World U.S. businesses do pay the most for employee retirement, but rising costs are now becoming a global phenomenon. |
The Motley Fool July 8, 2004 Robert Brokamp |
Retirement's Second Leg: Pensions How much retirement income can you expect from your company's pension plan? |
Financial Planning May 1, 2005 Matthew Vadum |
The Muni Market Most states on sure footing, but upgrades are unlikely. |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
This Dumb Move Could Kill Your Retirement After having gotten burned by the bear market, public pension funds are doing the financial equivalent of betting it all on red -- and the consequences could be devastating for the millions of public employees who are counting on them for their retirement. |
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Nanette Byrnes |
Sink Hole! How public pension promises are draining state and city budgets. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2010 Israelsen & Ferri |
Is a Pension a Bond? Unsure how to value a client's pension or social security? Use the liability reduction model. |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Prepare for the Looming Pension Crisis Underfunded pensions could well be the last straw that moves the U.S. into a brand-new financial crisis light-years beyond what we've seen so far. |
Job Journal March 6, 2005 Michael Kinsman |
Career Pros: Golden Years Losing Glitter Debate about imperiled pension plans won't help those about to retire. Even the President's current initiative to change Social Security does little to address the dilemma them. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2011 Cindy Johnson |
3 Management Teams You Shouldn't Trust -- and 2 You Can Fool me once, shame on you. |
Inc. May 2006 Amy Feldman |
A Bigger Parachute Eager to boost your retirement fund? Believe it or not, a pension might be the answer. |
IDB America February 2006 |
A Brighter Outlook for Pensions? The new book, A Quarter Century of Pension Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons Learned and Next Steps, analyzes triumphs and pitfalls of the pension reforms that swept Latin America, and offers lessons for the road ahead. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2004 David A. Geracioti |
The Great Gray Beast An interview with Peter G. Peterson, author of Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America -- and the World and Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It, on how the political class is mortgaging America's future. |
CFO August 1, 2006 Russ Banham |
Pension Dissension FASB is championing a two-phase project that would provide guidance for gauging annual pension expenses on the income statement and disclose plan assets and liabilities on the balance sheet and in footnotes. CFOs protest. |
CFO May 15, 2012 Marielle Segarra |
Pension Pain Underfunded multiemployer plans could create multiple problems. |
CFO February 22, 2005 David M. Katz |
The Domino Effect Ailing pension plans could overburden the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp and send premiums soaring. |
The Motley Fool January 12, 2006 Bill Mann |
The Problem With Your Pension Defined-benefit programs are disappearing. Some are insolvent. We have two simple words to put into your retirement vocabulary: index fund. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2007 Len Reinhart |
Role Reversal The financial planning industry will have to meet the challenge of creating and managing portfolios that outlive their owners, provide inflation protection and guarantee financial peace of mind in the retirement years. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2006 Alex J. Pollock |
Live Long, Work Long Working years have been shrinking, and retirement years expanding. How can we address the social, demographic, financial and political aspects of a growing percentage of the population that is living longer and expecting an income while no longer being productively employed? |