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GM: No pension contributions coming for next 5 yearsGeneral Motors Co., Detroit, does not expect to make any mandatory pension contributions for the next five years, according to its fourth-quarter earnings statement.
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Six guidelines for pension cashout successThe news about Ford and GM making lump-sum offers last year led to a flurry of speculation that the DB cashout option would gain momentum as a risk-management strategy for many more companies.
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GM, UAW in talks over lump-sum offerGeneral Motors Co. is in discussions with the United Auto Workers union on offering lump-sum pension payments, confirmed GM spokesman Dave Roman.
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General Motors UK signs £230 million annuity contract with Rothesay LifeGeneral Motors UK Ltd. entered into a £230 million ($371 million) pension buy-in annuity contract with Rothesay Life to secure the pension benefits of all participants in the General Motors UK Retirees Pension Plan.
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Supreme Court shuns State Street's effort to halt GM stock lawsuitThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed an effort by State Street Bank & Trust to stop a class-action lawsuit claiming that it had breached its fiduciary duty by failing to sell General Motors Corp. stock in the firm's 401(k) plans before the company began Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
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GM pension executive becomes senior consultant at Mercer
Milla Krasnopolsky was named senior consultant and lead strategist for dynamic solutions at Mercer.
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CalPERS-GM pension fund deal is most expensive mall sale in yearsCalPERS' pending agreement to buy the half interest of a suburban Chicago shopping mall that it doesn't already own is a relatively rare transaction in a white-hot corner of the real estate market.
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GM's retiree acceptance of lump sum seen as solid responseThe roughly 30% of eligible salaried retirees who have accepted General Motors Co.'s offer to convert their monthly annuity to a lump sum benefit is a solid response to the trailblazing approach that other companies are expected to follow, observers say.
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Lump-sum payouts moving into fast laneGM and Ford were the first to venture down the road of lump-sum payments, but the federal highway bill has turned that road into an expressway with at least 10 other companies following suit.
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CalPERS to be sole owner of giant Chicago-area mallCalPERS is set to take full ownership of the Schaumburg, Ill. Woodfield Mall in a deal that values the shopping center, the largest in the Chicago area, at more than $1 billion.
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Mixed opinions on GM's plan to transfer $29 billion to PrudentialGeneral Motors Co. plans to transfer $29 billion in assets from its pension plan to Prudential Financial Inc.'s insurance unit to fund the automaker's annuitization proposal — the largest such transaction among corporate pension sponsors.
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GM blazes new trailGeneral Motors Co.'s annuitization of $26 billion in pension obligations should be a game-changer for corporations in the way they finance and manage defined benefit plan risk.
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Identifying the best risk mitigation strategy for a corporate DB planA “one-size-fits-all” risk mitigation strategy for corporate defined benefit plans does not exist, particularly in the current environment.
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GM pension fund ready to sell Chicago-area mallGeneral Motors Co.'s pension fund has put up for sale a 50% stake in Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Ill., that could be worth $500 million.
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Moody's: Ford, Boeing among those ripe for picking annuitization
Ford, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Exelis are among major companies that could be candidates for pension terminations modeled after GM's planned annuitization of its $33 billion U.S. salaried employees pension plan, according to a Moody's Investors Service report.
