Associated Press BRIAN WITTE BALTIMORE (AP) -- Former pension fund manager Nathan Chapman Jr. was sentenced to 90 months in prison and ordered to pay $5...
John Wasik Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Can you serve two masters when you are brokering services for a pension fund? Commissioned pension consultants, who are...
11/3/2004 CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov 03, 2004 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Duke Energy boosted its third quarter profit nearly eight-fold by cutting debt expense from a...
Two industry consortia receive $13 million CBS MarketWatch By Stephanie I. Cohen WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - The Energy Department announced Thursday it doled out...
With switch in tactics, energy giant likely to meet or exceed goals for year, CEO says The Charlotte Observer by STAN CHOE Duke Energy Corp. continues its...
Summonses served in case that calls plan an `arbitrage scheme' The Wall Street Journal ELLEN E. SCHULTZ The debate over whether and how companies can use their...
Charlotte Business Journal David Mildenberg Top executives at Duke Energy Corp., eager to keep the company's turnaround cooking, expect to trim costs in their...
Citizen Works' Corporate Reform Weekly Jury convicts one Enron and four Merrill Lynch officials in accounting fraud trial Federal prosecutors won their first...
Tue Nov 9, 2004 04:33 PM ET NEW YORK, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp. (BAC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the No. 3 U.S. bank, on Tuesday said the U.S....
Employees File Lawsuit, Call Cash-Balance Plan Part of 'Arbitrage Scheme' By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 4, 2004; Page...
Pension, 401(k) plans examined The Charlotte Observer BY RICK ROTHACKER Posted on Wed, Nov. 10, 2004 The Internal Revenue Service is auditing the 1998 and 1999...
IRS checking records in response to employee lawsuit CBS MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Bank of America has disclosed in a quarterly filing with the...
By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL November 12, 2004 A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Cigna Corp. had wrongly forced an...
New York Times By JENNY ANDERSON Published: November 13, 2004 The New York attorney general's investigation into abuses in the insurance industry escalated...
In Big Win for ERISA Plaintiffs, 3rd Circuit Ruling Protects Worker's Accrued Benefits Shannon P. Duffy The Legal Intelligencer 11-15-2004 In an important win...
Dereg will phase out standard rate and hike costs for many Boston Business Journal Alexander Soule In just over three months, many companies are due for a jolt...
Dow Jones Thursday November 18 A former employee of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is suing the professional- services firm, saying it used its pension and 401(k) ...
Long life in retirement linked to size of your pension, study finds Lindsey Rogerson Personal Finance Editor CONCLUSIVE proof this week of a link between the...
Charlotte Business Journal Some employees of Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. are suing the company over its cash-balance pension plan, The Wall Street ...
IBM Reaches Partial Pension Settlement, but Suit Far from Over by Cheryl Ross September 23, 2004 — IBM has settled at least part of its dispute with...
Settlement in a groundbreaking case against IBM affects workers facing pension changes By Barbara Basler and Chad Hudnall November 2004 Kathi Cooper, a...
Reuters reported that a government auditor said Wednesday that the U.S. Army should withhold some future payments to Halliburton Co. for work in Iraq due to...
BY CARRIE MASON-DRAFFEN November 24, 2004 Two former employees of a Dallas-based company have sued one of the country's largest mortgage lenders alleging that...
"There's no question that if IBM loses on appeal, every company with a cash balance plan would become a target for a suit." IBM Gets the Big Blues Over Age...
New York Times A Premature Sunset for Pension Plans? By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH November 28, 2004 AMERICA seems to be giving up on the traditional pension. Scores...
Port Arthur News Thomas Voting Reports CASH-BALANCE PENSIONS: The House on Sept. 21 voted, 237 for and 162 against, to prevent the administration from joining...
Corporate Headquarters and Finance Departments Assuming More Control Over Global Pension and Employee Benefit Plans, Towers Perrin Survey Finds Monday November...
Carrier reports $114 million loss for October CBS.MarketWatch.com By Matt Andrejczak SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Lawyers for the independent fiduciary ...
New York Times By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH December 1, 2004 A prominent figure in the corporate governance movement, Sean Harrigan, the president of California's...
Bankruptcy court hearing is under way MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. - US Airways Group Inc. will seek a court injunction to prohibit a...