INDUSTRY CANADA: Pension plans in Canada -- January 1, 1, 1998.

M2 Presswire;  September 24, 1999 ;     152 words ......PRESSWIRE-24 September 1999-INDUSTRY CANADA: Pension plans in Canada -- January 1, 1998 (C)1994-99 M2...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:240999 Data on employer pension plans (registered pension plans), their membership and plan provisions are...

Gorging on debt: Danish pension plans turning backs on poor-performing...

Pensions & Investments;  June 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ......pensions market in the past 18 months. Pension plans here have been sucking up international...average equity allocations by Danish pension plans and insurance companies at 15% at the...falling equity markets. But Danish pension plans' penchant for bonds is the result of...

NWA pension relief likely, senator says; A key congressional leader says...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 12, 2006 ;     634 words ......allows Northwest Airlines to save its pension plans. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said...years to make contributions to three pension plans underfunded by $3.7 billion. Under...they will be forced to terminate the pension plans, as United Airlines and US Airways...

Pension plans in Canada -- January 1, 1999.

M2 Presswire;  September 25, 2000 ;     166 words ......2000-SASKATCHEWAN GOVERNMENT: Pension plans in Canada -- January 1, 1999...on employer plans (registered pension plans), their membership and plan...provisions are now available from the Pension Plans in Canada database. The Pension...

Japan looking forward to the future.(pension plans )(Brief article)

Pensions & Investments;  November 27, 2006 ;     196 words ......Mark Bruno The health of Japanese pension plans improved considerably over the last...better than those of U.S. and European pension plans, according to the report, which presented...room'' to make contributions to their pension plans, Dev Clifford, consultant at Greenwich...

City's pension plans a recipe for disaster; Our view.(Opinion)

Crain's Chicago Business;  August 6, 2007 ;     332 words ......a financial meltdown in the city's pension plans. As Greg Hinz reported on ChicagoBusiness...July 27), the unfunded liabilities of pension plans covering city workers grew by $2 billion...well over 100% a few years ago. City pension plans are trapped in a structural deficit...

`Cash-balance' pension plans get Senate scrutiny; Older workers complain...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  September 22, 1999 ;     465 words ......when companies switch to cash-balance pension plans, experts told Senators Tuesday. Members...switching their traditional defined-benefit pension plans to cash-balance plans, and thousands...use cash-balance and other hybrid pension plans. While some employees are fighting...

Companies put freeze on pension plans

The Business Journal - Central New York;  November 21, 2003 ;     427 words ......than one in five companies that offer pension plans has taken action to freeze benefits in...stock prices has battered many corporate pension plans since the beginning of 2001. Pension plans went from being 23 percent over-funded...

A mandate too far.(Editorial; financing pension plans in Netherlands)

Pensions & Investments;  October 28, 2002 ;     355 words ......new standards to require underfunded pension plans to be 105% funded within 12 months...as much as they might, sponsors of pension plans in the Netherlands still face the fluctuation...decline, shatter any attempt to fund pension plans at a precise level, e.g., 105%. The...

Selection among employer-sponsored pension plans: The role of individual...

Personnel Psychology;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......three major types of employersponsored pension plans: defined benefit, defined contribution...variation in their selection among pension plans. The results challenged the conventional...individual dif ferences. Employer-sponsored pension plans play a number of important roles for...

Terminated Pension Plans Put Many at Risk, Hill Told

The Washington Post;  March 25, 1987 ;     450 words ...Corporations have stripped employe pension plans of nearly $16 billion in excess assets...of both overfunded and underfunded pension plans effectively addresses the issue. "The...discourage companies from establishing pension plans in the first place by imposing too...

A truer picture.(pension plans )

Pensions & Investments;  September 19, 2005 ;     656 words ......strengthening the funding of their pension plans since 2001 in the face of a recession...But now many executives believe their pension plans, and even their corporate operations...conventions companies have used for their pension plans since the passage of ERISA, and the...

Stable public pension plans remain a target

American Teacher;  December 1, 2006 ;     570 words ......financial health of public employee pension plans is causing unwarranted anxiety about...contend. While most public employee pension plans are stable and fully funded-or close...assault on both private and public pension plans. Although the pro-privatization forces...

Pension plans getting shakier for many: Lawmakers seeking ways to reform...

Charleston Daily Mail;  June 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ......post-boom low, many of the nations private pension plans have been sinking deeper into the hole...insurance agency. The 1,108 weakest pension plans those whose assets are at least $50...The level of underfunding in worker pension plans today is the consequence of outdated...

Big Pension Plans Fall Further Behind; Congress Looks for Long-Term...

The Washington Post;  June 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ......post-boom low, many of the nation's private pension plans have been sinking deeper into the hole...insurance agency. The 1,108 weakest pension plans -- those whose assets are at least...The level of underfunding in worker pension plans today is the consequence of outdated...