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Pensions under stress: the funding of defined-benefit pension plan has eroded still more this year amid record-low levels of interest rates.		Sep 1, 2012	443
Entrepreneurship even in treasury: Google wins overall excellence.		Sep 1, 2012	1086
New repair rules: the IRS makes it easier for companies to take losses on building components they have replaced.		Mar 1, 2012	442
More comp votes: facing a second year of say-on-pay votes, companies hone the compensation descriptions in their proxy statements.		Feb 1, 2012	422
Calling all risk practitioners.		Feb 1, 2012	487
Soft market ends: insurance costs are finally heading higher, but experts say the increases will be moderate.		Dec 1, 2011	424
Where did things go wrong? predictive analytics tools let companies crunch the data to come up with trends and probabilities.		Oct 1, 2011	410
FCPA bills pile up: new policies guard against the high costs of just being investigated under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.		Sep 1, 2011	420
More protection, at a price: more companies bulk up their benefits packages with offerings that are paid for by employees, but use group buying power.		Jul 1, 2011	397
Unemployed not wanted? The EEOC scrutinizes whether companies' recruiting only already employed applicants for jobs could be discrimination.		Apr 1, 2011	421
Glidepath awareness: more companies are fine-tuning target-date funds to account for employees' ages, needs and retirement resources.		Mar 1, 2011	442
Plans wallow in low rates; defined-benefit pensions suffer increased liabilities as their funded status shrinks in the current interest-rate environment.		Oct 1, 2010	439
Perils of paying retail: a California court faults Edison International for overlooking lower-cost institutional mutual fund shares for its 401(k) plan.		Sep 1, 2010	428
Data goes incognito: new tokenization technology lets companies substitute unrelated numbers that can't be linked back to customers' credit cards.		Jul 1, 2010	1110
Watching the insurers: Marsh launches a web portal that helps corporate risk managers monitor the solvency of their carriers.		May 1, 2010	394
Delivering the goods in bad times.	Cover story	May 1, 2010	1447
Revising target-date funds: the popular 401(k) investments performed poorly amid the market meltdown, drawing the attention of regulators.		Apr 1, 2010	446
Herding social media: the use of technologies like blogs, Facebook and Twitter is spreading faster than companies can cast policies to control the risks.		Apr 1, 2010	1881
Catching data degradation: new product from IBM aims to sample data and identify problems in companies' information supply chains.		Mar 1, 2010	417
Avoiding pay pitfalls: the SEC pushes companies to analyze whether their compensation plans actually promote behavior that creates risk.		Mar 1, 2010	1055
Mind the income stream: the Obama administration wants to encourage 401(k) participants to use annuities, but workers show little interest.		Mar 1, 2010	1109
Digging for FX positions: FiREapps' latest release has the flexibility to interface with any accounting system to search for foreign exchange exposures.		Feb 1, 2010	396
Real retiree health promise: Coca-Cola is breaking new ground by using a captive insurance company and a trust to finance post-retirement health benefits.		Feb 1, 2010	1092
Monitoring the monitors: the audit group at Talecris worked with business-line leaders to put in place automated monitoring of controls.		Nov 1, 2009	428
Pension funding relief? Companies ask Congress for some leeway in making the huge pension contributions resulting from last year's losses.		Nov 1, 2009	445
Tracking covenants: using a wiki format, the new web-based debt & covenant manager can help companies comply with loan restrictions.		Oct 1, 2009	433
Risk oversight times 2: after acquiring fxpress, reval aims to combine the best of both products into an even better derivatives risk management solution.		Oct 1, 2009	425
Count ETFs in 401(k)s: Sungard and Ishares team up to provide a way for plans to offer exchange-traded funds alongside mutual funds.		Oct 1, 2009	464
Modulating say on pay: advisory votes in the U.K. have helped make CEOs' compensation more sensitive to poor company performance, study says.		Sep 1, 2009	435
Delivery pains at the post office: snow, rain and gloom of night haven't stopped the mail, but the recession is taking its toll. CFO Joe Corbett talks about how the service can get back on track.	Cover story	Sep 1, 2009	1380
Regs may trim hedges: companies say the plan to corral derivatives activity on exchanges will increase costs and make hedge accounting difficult.		Jul 1, 2009	442
Inventories look past LIFO: if convergence with global accounting standards doesn't obliterate LIFO, the Obama administration's craving for revenue could.		Jul 1, 2009	444
Working together on risk: Kyriba's alliance with FXpress reflects the increasing demand for treasury technology with robust risk capabilities.		Jul 1, 2009	403
Pensions hunker down: last year's market sell-off is encouraging corporate plan sponsors to lighten up on equities as they shy away from risk in general.	Survey	Jul 1, 2009	1103
The ABCs of GRC: as regulatory risks loom, companies evaluate how to get more out of governance, risk and compliance software.		Jun 1, 2009	1057
401(k) fees showdown: although courts have sided with 401(k) plan sponsors in lawsuits over plan costs and revenue sharing, the government is preparing to pounce.		Jun 1, 2009	429
Framing the future: Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell says companies should already be thinking about their strategy for success once the economy emerges from its difficulties.	Cover story	May 1, 2009	1267