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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending December 17

    Asset-management company Legg Mason Inc. has named Peter Nachtwey CFO. Most recently, he headed finance at The Carlyle Group.Time Warner Cable Inc. has promoted Robert Marcus to the roles of president and chief operating officer. Marcus, who has been at the company since 2005 and was named financ...

    By Joan Urdang • Dec. 17, 2010
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending December 17

    Asset-management company Legg Mason Inc. has named Peter Nachtwey CFO. Most recently, he headed finance at The Carlyle Group.Time Warner Cable Inc. has promoted Robert Marcus to the roles of president and chief operating officer. Marcus, who has been at the company since 2005 and was named financ...

    By Joan Urdang • Dec. 17, 2010
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    It’s the Customer, Stupid

    For finance chiefs with designs on the chief executive’s chair, serving a stint in operations is often a prerequisite. But the lack of an important quality may be blocking many CFOs from successfully doing so, in the view of one former CFO-turned-CEO.That quality is empathy for customers, and for...

    By • Dec. 15, 2010
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    It’s the Customer, Stupid

    For finance chiefs with designs on the chief executive’s chair, serving a stint in operations is often a prerequisite. But the lack of an important quality may be blocking many CFOs from successfully doing so, in the view of one former CFO-turned-CEO.That quality is empathy for customers, and for...

    By • Dec. 15, 2010
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending December 10

    David Wells, vice president of financial planning and analysis at Netflix Inc., has been promoted to finance chief. He replaces Barry McCarthy, who is leaving the company after serving as CFO since 1999.Reynolds American Inc. has announced that Mark Peters, vice president of finance at RAI Servic...

    By Joan Urdang • Dec. 10, 2010
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending December 10

    David Wells, vice president of financial planning and analysis at Netflix Inc., has been promoted to finance chief. He replaces Barry McCarthy, who is leaving the company after serving as CFO since 1999.Reynolds American Inc. has announced that Mark Peters, vice president of finance at RAI Servic...

    By Joan Urdang • Dec. 10, 2010
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    Surprising Rise in Health Costs

    U.S. companies should hope their collective forecast for health-care costs in 2011 is more accurate than the one they made for this year.A 6.9% spike in per-employee costs — the biggest since 2004 — caught many by surprise, as the expected increase of less than 6% was left in the dust, according ...

    By • Dec. 6, 2010
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    Surprising Rise in Health Costs

    U.S. companies should hope their collective forecast for health-care costs in 2011 is more accurate than the one they made for this year.A 6.9% spike in per-employee costs — the biggest since 2004 — caught many by surprise, as the expected increase of less than 6% was left in the dust, according ...

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    Supremes Mull Pension Deception

    A class-action pension-benefits claim by present and former Cigna employees under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) could have an unsettling effect on plan sponsors if the Supreme Court does not overturn two lower-court rulings in the nine-year-old case.A federal district court ...

    By • Dec. 3, 2010
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending December 3

    Timothy Pistell is retiring from his roles as executive vice president – finance and administration and CFO at Parker Hannifin Corp. after 41 years at the company. Controller Jon Marten has been promoted to succeed him, effective immediately; Pistell will stay on at the control and motion technol...

    By Joan Urdang • Dec. 3, 2010
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    Supremes Mull Pension Deception

    A class-action pension-benefits claim by present and former Cigna employees under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) could have an unsettling effect on plan sponsors if the Supreme Court does not overturn two lower-court rulings in the nine-year-old case.A federal district court ...

    By • Dec. 3, 2010
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending December 3

    Timothy Pistell is retiring from his roles as executive vice president – finance and administration and CFO at Parker Hannifin Corp. after 41 years at the company. Controller Jon Marten has been promoted to succeed him, effective immediately; Pistell will stay on at the control and motion technol...

    By Joan Urdang • Dec. 3, 2010
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    “It Was a Deal Made in Heaven.”

    When Xerox Corp. vice chairman and finance chief Lawrence Zimmerman was asked at a recent forum why 2010 was the best time for Xerox to make a $6.4 billion acquisition, he smiled and said, “It wasn’t.”That crisp reply was typical of Zimmerman, a 31-year IBM veteran who was lured out of retirement...

    By Roy Harris • Dec. 1, 2010
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    Repeal or Repair?

    In the wake of midterm victories, triumphant Republicans have repeatedly vowed to repeal health-care reform. Yet political reality suggests that GOP leaders’ only real option will be to fix and polish the very law they would prefer to consign to the dust heap.That may be good news for companies, ...

    By Tim Reason • Dec. 1, 2010
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    The Check Will Be in the Mail

    Even as defined-benefit pensions continue to advance up the endangered-species list, 401(k) plans, a presumably hardier species, have hit some evolutionary bumps of their own.Chief among them, of course, is the impact of the economic downturn, which left many plan participants with decimated acco...

    By David Katz • Dec. 1, 2010
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    “It Was a Deal Made in Heaven.”

    When Xerox Corp. vice chairman and finance chief Lawrence Zimmerman was asked at a recent forum why 2010 was the best time for Xerox to make a $6.4 billion acquisition, he smiled and said, “It wasn’t.”That crisp reply was typical of Zimmerman, a 31-year IBM veteran who was lured out of retirement...

    By Roy Harris • Dec. 1, 2010
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    The Check Will Be in the Mail

    Even as defined-benefit pensions continue to advance up the endangered-species list, 401(k) plans, a presumably hardier species, have hit some evolutionary bumps of their own.Chief among them, of course, is the impact of the economic downturn, which left many plan participants with decimated acco...

    By David Katz • Dec. 1, 2010
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    Repeal or Repair?

    In the wake of midterm victories, triumphant Republicans have repeatedly vowed to repeal health-care reform. Yet political reality suggests that GOP leaders’ only real option will be to fix and polish the very law they would prefer to consign to the dust heap.That may be good news for companies, ...

    By Tim Reason • Dec. 1, 2010
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending November 26

    Carl Casale has resigned as head of finance at Monsanto Co., effective December 31, in order to become president and CEO of CHS Inc. Casale has been at Monsanto since 1984 and has been CFO since September 2009. The company plans to name his replacement by the end of the year.Fair Isaac Corp. (FIC...

    By Joan Urdang • Nov. 24, 2010
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    CFOs Cool Their Heels

    While economists and pundits continue to squabble about whether the recession is over and meaningful recovery is taking place, a continuing trend in the job market for CFOs suggests otherwise.In down economic times, employers and their finance chiefs both tend to take a conservative “devil that y...

    By • Nov. 24, 2010
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    CFOs Cool Their Heels

    While economists and pundits continue to squabble about whether the recession is over and meaningful recovery is taking place, a continuing trend in the job market for CFOs suggests otherwise.In down economic times, employers and their finance chiefs both tend to take a conservative “devil that y...

    By • Nov. 24, 2010
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending November 26

    Carl Casale has resigned as head of finance at Monsanto Co., effective December 31, in order to become president and CEO of CHS Inc. Casale has been at Monsanto since 1984 and has been CFO since September 2009. The company plans to name his replacement by the end of the year.Fair Isaac Corp. (FIC...

    By Joan Urdang • Nov. 24, 2010
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending November 19

    David Johnson will resign as CFO of Fannie Mae by the end of the year. Deputy CFO David Hisey will take over his responsibilities until a permanent replacement is found.Paul Saleh is the new finance chief at Gannett Co., taking over from Gracia Martore, who was promoted to the posts of president ...

    By Joan Urdang • Nov. 19, 2010
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending November 19

    David Johnson will resign as CFO of Fannie Mae by the end of the year. Deputy CFO David Hisey will take over his responsibilities until a permanent replacement is found.Paul Saleh is the new finance chief at Gannett Co., taking over from Gracia Martore, who was promoted to the posts of president ...

    By Joan Urdang • Nov. 19, 2010
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    Health Care: Spend More, Save More

    To control health-care costs, more companies are resorting to a strategy that doesn’t seem to make sense: They are spending more.Employers are rejecting unpopular benefit cuts and instead eliminating co-payments on prescription drugs to encourage employees with severe health problems to take thei...

    By Kimberly Blanton • Nov. 18, 2010