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CORPORATE PENSION CRISIS
The U.S. is going through a corporate pension crisis. Of the roughly $2.3 billion in U.S. corporate pension plans, roughly $500 billion sits in so-called frozen pensions that cap their benefits and or no longer accept new employees or contributions. And amid the market rout, pension funds are increasingly running huge deficits that will require companies to dip into their profits to make up that funding gap. Companies are searching for creative solutions to those problems.
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collapse of 2008 -- may never return, according to the author of an annual study on the subject. Corporate pension...
Even with no savings or company pensions, Canadians do have a basic safety net once they reach 65. However, those who...
New York City Comptroller John Liu , who campaigned last year promising “full accountability and transparency” as chief...
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES ZURICH -(Dow Jones)- Novartis AG (NVS) Thursday reported a sharp rise in second quarter net...
Dear Harry: I was laid off from my job after 17 years of continuous employment. I anticipate being called back when...
promise of a government stipend, to the happy decades in which a typical retiree could count on a company pension and...
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest U.S. public pension, wants an extra $600.
current and future retirees. Those low contribution levels were further compounded when the stock market tanked.
Charles E.F. Millard, right, the former director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., appears May 20, 2009, at a...
Treasury to reconsider its proposal to levy an annual set-up charge on employees who join Nest, the nationwide company...
Among the problems posed by the recession, but one of the less obvious – because further in the future – could prove to...
Pension systems worldwide are in crisis. U.S. public and private pensions alone are facing a shortfall of more than $1...
at leaving the country – scrapping higher rate pension relief could lead to high earners fleeing their own company...
raid on a gold-plated, copper-bottomed sector of the British economy - its pension funds. Up until this point, company...
means paying for these things yourself. No retirement plan: As an employee you might have participated in a company...
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) announced the appointment of Trish Taniguchi as director of...
rates as high as 8,000% on their pension contributions, it emerged last week, heaping more pain on company pensions.
Federal Government to oversee state pension funds and their financial soundness in a manner similar to that with...
a parent, you don't want your child to end up behind. And with fewer workers being offered corporate pension plans,...
worth about £3,000 with Hymans Robertson. Mrs Adam would like to move this money into her new company pension, which is...
pension schemes accepted into the Government's Pension Protection Fund. The safety net pays compensation to workers...
underlying basis, stripping out the impact of property disposals and a one-off credit of £91 million to the company...
of the things inflation pushes up is interest rates, so taking the fixed rate annuity offered by most company pensions...
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