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1.  Bloomberg Agrees to Buy Bureau of National Affairs for About $990 Million
Bloomberg; subscription may be required Link to more items from this source
Aug. 25, 2011
BNA, which publishes the Daily Labor Report and U.S. Law Week, will 'significantly grow Bloomberg's presence in Washington' and its research will contribute to coverage and analysis of employment, health care, labor, accounting, intellectual property and telecommunications, Bloomberg said.
2.  Bloomberg Headline: 'Rich Professionals Are Using Pension Plans as a Tax Dodge'
Bloomberg Link to more items from this source
Aug. 15, 2018
"There's one area where the traditional pension plan is getting new life -- as a tax dodge for wealthy business owners. Pensions, also known as defined-benefit plans, can be used by doctors, law partners and wealth managers to stash hundreds of thousands of dollars in income a year. By doing so, they'll get around the income limits Congress created to bar them from a generous new tax break for owners of pass-through entities, who report the firms' income on their individual tax returns."
3.  Millennials Embrace ESG Option in Bloomberg's 401(k) Plan
Pensions & Investments Link to more items from this source
Feb. 8, 2018
"Millennials are the largest identifiable group that has elected to participate in the ESG-focused fund in Bloomberg's $2.5 billion U.S. 401(k) plan ... Just under 1% of the plan's total assets are invested in the Parnassus Core Equity Fund, which focuses on socially conscious U.S. large-cap companies."
4.  Bloomberg Discrimination Decision Loaded Against Work-Life Balance
The Washington Post; subscription may be required Link to more items from this source
Aug. 19, 2011
In her opinion siding with the Bloomberg media company (PDF), Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska did more than rule against the dozens of women who had joined the class-action lawsuit alleging systematic discrimination. She also smacked down any notion that workers might expect their employers to honor their family-life decisions.
5.  New York Pensions Set Return Expectations Too High at 8%, Mayor Bloomberg Says
Bloomberg; subscription may be required Link to more items from this source
Oct. 4, 2010
" 'It's much too high an assumption for us, I think it should be lowered,' Bloomberg said today at a news briefing, referring to the city's five pensions holding almost $104 billion. 'That's going to require the city to put in more money.' "
6.  NASRA Response to Bloomberg Article (PDF)
National Association of State Retirement Administrators [NASRA] Link to more items from this source
Mar. 11, 2009
2 pages. Excerpt: Re: Hidden Pension Fiasco May Foment Another $1 Trillion Bailout, Bloomberg, March 3, 2009. The Bloomberg article on public pensions falls into some of the same traps as many other pension-related critiques: ignoring important countervailing evidence; failing to place the size and scope of public pension issues into their proper context; and mistakenly applying a few bad examples to the entire public pension community.
7.  NCPERS Response to Recent Bloomberg Article
National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems [NCPERS] Link to more items from this source
Mar. 8, 2009
Excerpt: A recent Bloomberg article indicates that public pension plans routinely set their assumed rates of return far above what could be expected, and that the funds manipulate their numbers by smoothing investment returns.... What the reporter doesn't note is that over the past 24 years, CalPERS has exceeded its expected rate of return 17 times, with eight of those years more than doubling the 7.75 percent assumed rate of return. The reporter doesn't note that despite the decline in the value of CalPERS assets last year, it beat the Dow -- which lost 34.34 percent -- by more than seven percentage points.
8.  NYC Mayor Bloomberg Takes Step Toward Equality with Pension Funds for Same-Sex Couples
The Empty Closet Link to more items from this source
Dec. 9, 2004
Excerpt: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his appointees to the city's five pension funds will be proposing resolutions to treat marriages and civil unions of same-sex couples performed outside of New York State like any other marriage for purposes of pension fund benefits.The Mayor's move was spurred by a similar action New York State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi took in October to have the state's retirement system treat Canadian marriages of same-sex couples the same as[.]
9.  Five Reasons Why Bloomberg is Right to Blast 401(k) Rollovers
Lawton Retirement Plan Consultants Link to more items from this source
June 25, 2014
"Rolling a 401(k) account into an IRA is generally a really bad idea, for the following reasons: Higher fees.... Not only higher fees, but more fees.... No advice.... Bad advice.... Loss of protection from creditors.... [T]here are very few compelling reasons to remove 401(k) balances from qualified retirement plan accounts."
10.  AHIP's Karen Ignagni Discussing 'The Link' on Bloomberg TV
America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP] Link to more items from this source
Mar. 26, 2012
AHIP"s president and CEO discusses the link between market reforms and the mandate.
11.  Telecommuting Creates 'Nexus' in Many States, Subjecting Products and Services to Sales Tax
Bloomberg BNA Link to more items from this source
Apr. 25, 2012
"Telecommuting and maintaining in-home offices are among the activities that can create state tax liabilities, a Bloomberg BNA survey found. Potential Impact: Employers may be exposed to unexpected taxes when allowing employees to telecommute from other states. Few states have adopted nexus policies aimed at fostering alternative-work arrangements, according to a survey of state revenue agencies by Bloomberg BNA[.]"
12.  Defined Benefits Plans: Underfunded Plans (PDF)
The Wagner Law Group and OctoberThree, via Bloomberg Law Link to more items from this source
Mar. 21, 2023
17 pages."This chapter will provide an overview of the most common purposes for which the funding level of a single-employer PBGC-covered pension plan is determined, how assets and liabilities are determined for each of these purposes, what the key consequences are if a plan is underfunded for one or more of these purposes, what the key consequences are if the employer has failed to satisfy the minimum funding requirements for the plan, and what the key options are for dealing with unaffordable contributions." [Chapter 9 of Bloomberg Law Guide to Retirement Plan Designs]
13.  The Secret Drug Pricing System Middlemen Use to Rake in Millions
Bloomberg Link to more items from this source
Sept. 12, 2018
"In an analysis of pharmacy and middleman markups in Medicaid plans around the country, Bloomberg found big spreads on dozens of drugs, and evidence that the spreads are growing. For many widely used generic drugs, state insurance plans are collectively paying millions of dollars in fees to private companies."
14.  Spokesman Says DOL Won't Enforce the Fiduciary Rule
Bloomberg BNA Link to more items from this source
Mar. 18, 2018
"The Labor Department won't be enforcing the fiduciary rule -- at least for now -- after a federal appeals court in Louisiana vacated the rule, a department spokesman told Bloomberg Law March 16.... It's helpful to the industry that the DOL is acknowledging that it covers the whole rule and has a nationwide impact, Kevin Walsh, an attorney with Groom Law Group [said] ... It would also be helpful for the DOL to make clear that the rule is off the books and other parties can't enforce it, Walsh added."
15.  These Top Law Firms Got the Most ERISA Class Action Biz
Bloomberg BNA Link to more items from this source
Oct. 23, 2016
"The law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius tops the list of law firms getting the most business from large employers hit with ERISA class actions in the past year. Since November 2015, Morgan Lewis has been hired to represent employers in 19 [ERISA] class actions, according to Bloomberg BNA's research.... O'Melveny & Myers LLP closely follows."
16.  Employer Groups See Mixed Bag in EEOC Wellness Plan Ruling
Bloomberg BNA Link to more items from this source
Sept. 23, 2016
"Orion won on the voluntary standard issue, but there should be a concern about the court's application of the safe harbor provision in the Americans with Disabilities Act ... Employers have taken a position that the safe harbor applies and the court essentially ruled that out in this case, she said. The deference the court is giving to the safe harbor provision isn't what employers were hoping for[.] ... Some employer groups see this as a win for their side. The Orion decision is a 'very strong rebuttal' to the EEOC's final regulation that the limited incentives that employers can provide to participants in wellness plans can't go over 30 percent, Mark Wilson, chief economist at the HR Policy Association in Washington, told Bloomberg BNA[.]"
17.  ConocoPhillips Best Among 401(k) Plans; Facebook Is Last
Bloomberg Link to more items from this source
July 22, 2014
"The rankings [by Bloomberg News reporters] allow employees ... to see how their own 401(k) compares to others on such criteria as company match, investment options, and time to vest.... [M]ore than 40 percent of companies allow workers to vest immediately ... Retailers Home Depot Inc. and Amazon.com make employees wait three years, and software maker Oracle Corp., four."
18.  Retirees Suffer as Plan-to-IRA Rollover Boom Enriches Brokers
Bloomberg Link to more items from this source
June 17, 2014
"Former employees shifted $321 billion from 401(k)-style plans to individual retirement accounts in 2012, up about 60 percent in a decade ... As a result, IRAs hold $6.5 trillion, more than the $5.9 trillion in 401(k)-style accounts. A three-month Bloomberg investigation found that former employees at major companies ... have complained that sales representatives lured them into rolling over their 401(k) nest eggs into unsuitable IRA investments. The investigation was based on interviews with retirees and brokers, confidential arbitration records and other documents."
19.  New York Pays More Police in Retirement Than to Patrol Streets
New York Post, via Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Link to more items from this source
Oct. 30, 2013
"During [Mayor] Bloomberg's final year, city will spend $8.7 billion on the police department, nearly double the 2002 figure and more than three times the rate of inflation.... The $4.3 billion taxpayers will spend on salaries and wages for police officers (and a contingent of administrative staff) this year has only just kept up with inflation over the Bloomberg years. By contrast, the pension budget has quadrupled -- from $1.1 to $4.4 billion. We'll spend more on cops' benefits this year than on salaries."
20.  Illinois Pension Reform Efforts Squeeze Penalty to 2011 Low
Bloomberg Link to more items from this source
Apr. 1, 2013
"Investors betting the worst is over for Illinois have driven its debt to the strongest level in two years as the state offers $800 million of general-obligation bonds, its biggest sale in 11 months. ... Four months after Democratic Governor Pat Quinn released a video showing a cartoon of 'Squeezy the Pension Python' threatening to strangle the capitol building in Springfield, investors are looking to Illinois debt to pad returns. Buyers demand 1.3 percentage points of extra yield on 10-year debt from Illinois and its localities, close to the smallest since February 2011, data compiled by Bloomberg show."
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