ESOPs Get Legislative Backing
December 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) proponents got some legislative backing last week.
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Tribune ESOP Fiduciary Breach Suit Moves Forward
December 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has moved forward claims that fiduciaries for the Tribune Company Employee Stock...
Court Moves Forward Claim ESOP Reps Omitted Financial Data
December 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal court has ruled that a former Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) participant can...
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...
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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%...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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...