Administration | November 4th, 2009 Tribune Co. ESOP to be Terminated November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a memo to Tribune Co. employees announcing a new retirement plan, Chief Administrative Officer...
Benefits | August 17th, 2009 Survey Finds Companies with ESOP Outperformed Stock Market August 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Results from the Employee Ownership Foundation's 18th Annual ESOP Economic Performance Survey show that 88.5%...
Administration | April 10th, 2009 DoL Subpoenas Tribune on ESOP April 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has subpoenaed Tribune Co. in an investigation connected to the...
Compliance | December 24th, 2008 Federal Judge Allows Ford ESOP Suit to Move Forward December 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has denied a motion to...
Compliance | November 13th, 2008 CA Firm Charged with Misusing ESOP Assets November 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the board of directors of The Employee Ownership...
Benefits | September 2nd, 2008 ESOP Member Firms Give Program Big Thumbs Up September 2, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Executives at companies with an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) are nearly all jumping for...
Benefits | June 18th, 2008 Study Indicates Majority-Owned ESOP Firms Enjoy Greater Productivity June 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recent research by Brent Kramer, a doctoral candidate at the City University of New York,...
Compliance | June 10th, 2008 IRS Changes Reporting Requirements for Dividends on ESOP Distributions June 10, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Beginning with distributions in 2009, the reporting of dividends on employer securities that are distributed...
Compliance | May 19th, 2008 Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Upholds IRA Assets Exclusion May 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A 10th U.S. Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel has upheld a lower court ruling that the...
Compliance | April 15th, 2008 ESOP Benefits of Fiduciary Who Breached His Duties Can Offset Plan Loss April 15, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama has determined a former bank...
Compliance | January 3rd, 2008 Current ESOP Participant can Represent Former Participants in Suit January 3, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California has determined that a current...
Products | November 8th, 2007 Principal Tool Simplifies Financial Liability Forecasting for ESOPs November 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has announced a new tool to make the task of financial...
Compliance | October 26th, 2007 Rangel Bill Would Tax Stock Option Exercise in S Corps. with ESOPs October 26, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Representative Charles Rangel (D-New York) has unveiled a bill requiring the recognition of ordinary...
Compliance | October 11th, 2007 SCOOTER Store ESOP Participants Claim Fiduciary Breach by CEO October 11, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The chief executive of SCOOTER Store, Inc. had insider information about the federal government's investigation...
Benefits | August 22nd, 2007 Survey: ESOPs linked to Company Performance August 22, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nearly 90% of respondents to a recent survey consider creating an employee stock ownership plan...
Compliance | July 5th, 2007 DoL Settles ESOP Mismanagement Lawsuit July 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The participants in Cambar Software Inc.'s (CSI) Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) will have $760,000...
Benefits | June 25th, 2007 ESOP Growth a Roller Coaster Ride Since Inception June 25, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A publication by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis discusses research that shows employee stock...
Compliance | June 20th, 2007 Purchase of Company Assets at Low Price no Fiduciary Breach to ESOP June 20, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama has found that participants of...
Products | June 7th, 2007 Principal Unveils Online ESOP Reporting Service June 7, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Principal Financial Group has unveiled a new online distribution service for employee stock ownership...
Compliance | April 18th, 2007 Court: Challengers Must Prove Plan Loss for Fiduciary Breach in ESOP Merger April 18, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that because there was "no loss" when...