CFO.com: Employee Benefits News http://www.cfo.com/archives/directory.cfm/2984379 The latest finance news, including accounting practices, government investigations, capital-raisings, credit ratings, investor relations, and personnel shuffles. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:44:59 GMT CFO.com http://www.cfo.com/images/cfo_com_logo_small.gif http://www.cfo.com Fiduciary Liabilities: Are You Covered? http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14455441/?f=rsspage With lawsuits piling up against pension plan sponsors, individual fiduciary would do well to protect themselves against financial risks, experts say. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:44:00 GMT Creating Buyers: The ESOP as Exit Strategy http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14453718/?f=rsspage Interest in creating employee stock-ownership plans seems to be ticking up among business owners worried that capital-gains tax rates soon may rise. They may want to sell now while the rates stay at 15%. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:20:00 GMT Stock Gains Don't Rescue Pension Funding http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14451714/?f=rsspage Private-equity firms, meanwhile, may have even better reasons than usual to derisk pension plans sponsored by portfolio companies. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:43:00 GMT Doing What Needs Doing: A CFO as Sales Boss http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14450716/?f=rsspage A software firm's finance and operations chief puts himself on the front lines of customer interaction. His other passion: carefully nurturing the company's ESOP. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:02:00 GMT Retirement Roulette http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14449109/?f=rsspage As corporate finance experts hand off more responsibility for retirement to individual employees, the number of big winners and losers among those employees is growing. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:09:00 GMT Employee-Benefit Cost Pressures Plague CFOs, Survey Finds http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14448377/?f=rsspage Perhaps in response, 33% said their companies were cutting average per-employee health-care costs and 26% said their employers would reduce their matches of their employees' 401(k) contributions. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:59:00 GMT DoL Eyes New Chrysler $5B Health-Benefits Deal http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14445105/?f=rsspage Under the Labor Department's plan, a retiree-benefit trust could hold shares and debt of New Chrysler in order to grease the wheels of the sale of the company to Fiat North America. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:48:00 GMT Michael Vick to Pay Back $400,000 to Pension Plan http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14444389/?f=rsspage Vick allegedly used plan assets to help pay criminal restitution imposed upon him after his conviction for unlawful dog fighting. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:28:00 GMT How One CFO Left Links, Took Helm in Crisis http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14444310/?f=rsspage Michael Mancuso's cost-cutting moves since coming out of retirement to lead finance at Computer Sciences Corp. have included freezing the company's pension fund and ditching executive car perks. Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:00:00 GMT DoL: Let GM Fund Benefits with Company Stock http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14440856/?f=rsspage Will the move spur a flood-tide of similar requests from cash-poor, benefit-burdened employers? Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:22:00 GMT