Pension plan

Canadian Pension Plan Raises Bid for Macquarie Fund

New York Times Jun 16

A Canadian pension fund seeking to buy Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group has won over two reluctant shareholders with a sweetened 1.64 billion Australian dollar ($1.30 billion) bid.

PBGC assumes Circuit City pension plan

MarketWatch May 27

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. said Wednesday it has assumed responsibility for a pension plan covering more than 21,000 former workers and retirees of Circuit City, a defunct electronics retailer. PBGC assumed the pension plan as it would...

Canada Pension Plan Fire Sale

Michael James on Money May 27

Many people are hurting financially in this recession, and the government has decided to help out with changes to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). This is the same kind of help you might get from a stranger who sees you need money badly and offers...

[$] Cigna Will Freeze Pension Plan

Wall Street Journal May 11

Cigna will freeze its pension plan in a cost-cutting move as the insurer grapples with declining health-plan enrollment and investment income.

Union Pension Plan Takes Aim at Citi Directors

New York Times Apr 20

The pension plan of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has ginned up a colorful poster, complete with red umbrella, to mark its campaign against several Citigroup directors. The union, which represents 1.6 million...

YRC To "Fund" Pension Plan With... Real-Estate?

Zero Hedge Apr 13

Could this be a harbinger of how massively underfunded corporate pension plans intend on tackling the seemingly insurmountable problem of upcoming pension obligations? In an 8-K released earlier, trucker YRC Worldwide has come up with a novel...

Pension plans, firm risk, and the cost of capital

Capital Ideas Dec 24

This Times article discusses some firms that are dealing with the impact of shrinking pension plan funds. Another one at Bloomberg mentions a $230B decline in pension plan funding just in October and November of 2008, reducing funding levels from...

Pension Plan to Members: Stop Calling, yes, we are looking to BUY stocks.

Confused Capitalist Oct 11

The 30,000 members of the B.C. public service recently received an email from the government's pension manager: Stop calling us - your pension is safe! Furthermore, they stated, we are looking to buy stocks in this environment, in order to...

The Pension Plan Cookie Thief

Contrarian Profits Aug 11

I will note for the record that every time I try that crap with the employee pension plan or the petty cash account at work, everybody starts running around screaming about what a thieving, lying, despicable crook I am… To show you that the...

Do you have a Pension Plan?

Canadian Personal Finance Blog Mar 15

Stats Canada puts out tons of information, but I always find interesting spins on some of the stuff (no I am not going to comment on Frozen Chicken Futures). Today they published the value of Employer Pension Plans in Canada. This is the value of...

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