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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Executive benefits Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Private Pensions: Sponsors of 10 Underfunded Plans Paid Executives Approximately $350 Million in Compensation Shortly Before Plan Termination [Guidance Overview] Section 409A Reporting Required This Year for Plan Document Violations, Including Outstanding Discounted Options Code Sections. 409A and 457A Present M&A Issues, Treasury Official Notes As Pensions Were Abandoned, Four Firms Paid Top Executives $49.5M in Benefits Health Care Reform Bill Would Restrict Health Insurers' Compensation Governance and Compliance Advisory Update: November 2009 Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance Provisions in Restoring Financial Stability Act of 2009 (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of Final IRS Section 6039 Regs Affecting Information Reporting Requirements for Statutory Stock Options Pay Czar Reduces Executive Pay for Firms Receiving Exceptional TARP Assistance [Guidance Overview] Tax and ERISA Implications of Non-Qualified Non-Equity-Based Incentive Arrangements for Closely Held C-Corporations SEC Says No More Lenience on Pay Disclosure [Guidance Overview] Executive Employment Agreements and Bonus Plans May Need to Amendment to Comply with Revenue Ruling 2008-13 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] California Supreme Court Upholds Forfeiture of Incentive Compensation (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Contractual Basis of Incentive Compensation Re-Emphasized: Restricted Stock in Lieu of Cash Wages Can Be Forfeited by Resignation in California Performance-Based SERPs: An Alternative Approach to Executive Benefits Roundup of Recent 409A Developments for NQDC Plans California Legislature Tries to Block Steep Cut in Its Pay and Perks To Retain Its Bankers, Citigroup Offers Stock Option Plan Will the SEC Apply New Executive Compensation Disclosure Rules for 2010 Proxy Season? [Guidance Overview] Towers Perrin Monthly Regulatory Round-Up: Executive Compensation (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Federal Reserve Board Enters Executive Pay Debate with Proposal for Oversight of Incentive Compensation [Guidance Overview] IRS Begins Section 409A Audits [Guidance Overview] California Supreme Court Affirms Employer's Right to Offer Voluntary Equity Plan Towers Perrin U.S. Legislative Tracking Chart: Retirement and Executive Compensation (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Section 409A Errors That Can Still Be Corrected by December 31, 2009 Executive Pensions Reportedly Soar as Companies' Value Plummets [Guidance Overview] Deadline Approaches to Bring Qualified Performance-Based Compensation into Compliance with Section 162(m) [Guidance Overview] The Perfect Storm Swirling Around Executive Compensation and the Related Corporate Governance [Guidance Overview] Perform Year-End Review of Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans for 409A Operational Failures [Guidance Overview] Last Chance to Fix Bonus Plans and Severance/Employment Agreements [Guidance Overview] Federal Reserve Proposes Supervisory Initiatives Over Compensation Practices at Banks (PDF) More 409A Relief Coming? [Guidance Overview] Federal Reserve Proposed Supervisory Initiatives Over Compensation Practices at Banks (PDF) Details on the Pay Czar's Cutbacks on Executive Pay [Opinion] Crackdown on Executive Pay: Too Much or Not Enough? Pay Czar Cuts Total Compensation, Increases Base Pay for Some Executives Last Chance for Some Companies to Amend Incentives to Secure 162(m) Deductions IRS Personnel Share Unofficial Comments on Compliance Issues with ABA Employee Benefits Committee What Sponsors and Advisors Should Know About Retirement Plans TARP Special Master Cuts Executive Pay Prevalence and Design of Executive and Director Stock Ownership Guidelines Among the Top 250 Companies (PDF) Curbing Excessive Executive Compensation by Making It Non-Deductible Some Retiring CEOs Take Good Stock Prices with Them, Study Says Bailed-Out Firms Ordered to Slash Top Pay Government to Order Pay Cuts at AIG, Other Firms IRS Mounts Audit Initiative Targeting Misclassification and Fringe Benefits Executive Compensation: Facts At Rescued Banks, Chief Executive Perks Keep Rolling with Fringe Compensation Rising 4 Percent Last Year [Guidance Overview] Many Companies Need to Amend for 162(m) by Year End (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Public Companies Face Deadline to Amend Incentive Pay and Preserve Tax Deductions [Guidance Overview] Executive Compensation Tax Rules May Require Year-End Planning 2009 Director Compensation: NASDAQ 100 vs . NYSE 100 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Montana Supreme Court Upholds Award in Executive Pension Plan Case Physical Exams for Executives: Effective? Inequitable? [Guidance Overview] Many Companies Need to Amend for 162(m) by Year End IRS Begins 409A Audits! [Guidance Overview] Year-End Deadline for Bonus and Performance-Based Equity Fast Approaching Executive Pay Reform: Beyond the Corporate and Financial Institution Compensation Fairness Act of 2009 [Guidance Overview] Towers Perrin Monthly Regulatory Round-Up on Executive Compensation, September 2009 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] What is the Top-Paid Group Election? Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). 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