Word: payouts
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Corner offices don't stay vacant for long; the board organizes a search committee even before the fired CEO departs with a large payout. Lucent is looking for a boss with a technical background and experience in rationalizing businesses. The pay is great, the perks are plentiful, and you get your very own jet. Just don't have the seat pillows monogrammed...
...goals as a result of outstanding returns from venture capital investments. In celebration, the University intends to share the news with more than 1,000 overseers, fellows and other prominent alumni. The stunning news should, at the very least, prompt the University to spend more money. Harvard's endowment payout is typically lower than most other colleges and universities. These extraordinary investment returns, coupled with signs of a healthy national economy, supports a more generous endowment spending policy...
...Philip Morris' CEO. "Geoffrey Bible, I'm available, pal," he bellowed to a crowd of reporters. "Mr. Bible, with all your shareholder meetings and all your stock and your $25 million bonuses, yes, and all your tough talk. Mr. Bible, call me next week. I'll take a payout...
Pensions? Once upon a time, American businesses funded what was known as defined-benefit plans; they were required to contribute whatever amount would guarantee a specific payout. But corporations like to be able to predict their future liabilities, and the defined-benefit approach has rapidly been replaced by the defined-contribution plan: employer and/or employee contributes X dollars, fund trustees invest it, and investment performance determines the payout. It's great in an up market, but, says Michael F. Carter, a benefits specialist with the Hay Group, a worldwide human-resources consultancy, "we're beginning to enter what I call...
...from rising prices. The interest paid on bonds issued from May 1 through October 2000 is a hefty 7.49%, at an annual rate. That includes a 3.6% fixed rate plus a 3.82% inflation adjustment based on the recent consumer price index (cpi). Small savers can't beat that attractive payout, and some large investors have been jumping...