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- Goldpreis fällt mit Dollar-Erholung auf Zweiwochentief LONDON (Dow Jones-VWD)--Der Goldpreis ist am Mittwoch auf ein Zweiwochentief von 437,45 USD je Feinunze abgerutscht. Gegen 15.58 Uhr kostet ... |
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- Goldpreis fällt mit Dollar-Erholung auf Zweiwochentief LONDON (Dow Jones-VWD)--Der Goldpreis ist am Mittwoch auf ein Zweiwochentief von 437,45 USD je Feinunze abgerutscht. Gegen 15.58 Uhr kostet ... |
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- 9 pages. Excerpt: "On December 20, 2004 the Treasury Department and IRS released Notice 2005-1, which is the first guidance with respect to the application of the new Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Section 409A, which was added to the Code by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, significantly changes the rules for the taxation of nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, effective for deferrals of amounts earned and vested on and after January 1, 2005." (Pillsbury Winthrop LLP) |
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- 5 pages. Excerpt: "This Alert summarizes the most significant aspects of the notice. The Notice addresses a number of issues left unresolvedin the Act, including pressing transition issues raised by theJanuary 1, 2005 effective date of the Act." (Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP) |
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- Excerpt: "Download printable pocket limit card (cut and fold). This document is in a PDF. You will need Acrobat Reader to view and print." (Swerdlin & Company) |
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- Excerpt: "The 2004 session of Congress continued into December, but benefits-related discussions were wrapped up in November. The 108th Congress had a busy legislative agenda, enacting legislation on hybrid pension plans, defined benefit funding and nonqualified deferred compensation. Prescription drug importation was a key topic on the health care agenda, as lawmakers debated the safety of imported prescription drugs and whether importation could help rein in prescription drug costs." (Watson Wyatt Worldwide) |
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- Excerpt: "Alan L. Beller, director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance, recently shared his views on how companies should go about disclosing executive compensation on their proxies and how compensation committees can ensure that executive compensation serves the interests of shareholders. |
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- Excerpt: "The IRS has proposed the first comprehensive guidance under section 403(b) in 40 years. 403(b) plans involve retirement annuity contracts and mutual fund custodial accounts for employees of 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations and public educational organizations, and retirement income accounts established or maintained by churches or church-affiliated organizations." (Watson Wyatt Worldwide) |
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- Excerpt: "The wave of litigation against cash balance plans continues. A new lawsuit against the Bank of America's (BoA) cash balance plan alleges age discrimination and makes a variety of other claims based on the plan's unique design and features. And an appellate court has ruled that, in Cigna's conversion to a cash balance plan, Cigna violated ERISA's anti-cutback rule by adopting a plan amendment near the end of the plan year that became effective as of the beginning of the plan year." (Watson Wyatt Worldwide) |
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- Excerpt: "The IRS has proposed regulations permitting phased retirement arrangements in qualified defined benefit or money purchase pension plans under specified conditions. After the rules become final, these plans will be able -- for the first time -- to provide in-service distributions to participants younger than normal retirement age. Although the proposed regulations offer meaningful flexibility for employers that wish to offer phased retirement, they would impose considerable ...." (Watson Wyatt Worldwide) |
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- Excerpt: "One Southern California company's novel attempt to cut workers' compensation insurance costs has landed its owners in hot water." (Mercury News via SiliconValley.com) |
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- Excerpt: "Opinion: Although major health care providers are still financially stressed and federal government resolve may be wavering, next year is still shaping up as one for advances in health IT for U.S. hospitals. |
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- Excerpt: "New York Times columnist Daniel Altman wrote about 'Taxes and Consequences' after the election, fearing all prospective changes in the status quo. His complaints with allowing young workers to put part of their Social Security tax into personal savings accounts were stupendously supercilious. He demanded to know 'who would choose where workers could put their money?' The elitism here is obvious. |
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- Excerpt: "The year in medicine can be summed up best as the year Americans increasingly were forced to peer into their medicine cabinets with a wary eye. Alarming headlines about one blockbuster drug were soon supplanted by fresh headlines warning about some other popular medication." (USA TODAY via BlueCross BlueShield Association) |
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- Excerpt: "ASPPA commends the IRS and Treasury for their efforts to simplify the rules applicable to defined benefit plans. As you know, the complexity of defined benefit plans is an oft-cited reason for their lack of appeal to many plan sponsors. These efforts to simplify the application of the Code Section 411(d)(6) 'anti-cutback' rules are a step in the right direction to preserve the defined benefit plan as a viable retirement plan option for employers." (American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries) |
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- Excerpt: "Election Day has come and gone, but the effects on benefits-related issues are likely to be significant and long-lasting. President Bush is expected to stay the course on health care and to move toward Social Security reform. He will push to reform the tax code and to make the temporary tax cuts that were enacted during his first term permanent. Republican gains in the Senate and the House of Representatives should help President Bush advance his agenda. |
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- Excerpt: "The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) offers these comments in response to IRS Announcement 2004-71 (Draft). .... ASPPA has many comments on the Announcement. However, certain issues that are considerably more important to ASPPA than others are summarized below in order to emphasize their importance. |
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- Forum: General Discussion Posted By: Zootyzoot Post Time: 12-29-2004 at 03:37 PM |
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- Most recent daily statistics (27 Dec 2004): Ranking: 0, Activity percentile: 0.00%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (27 Dec 2004): Download count: 0 |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Project description: Dawn of the Titans is a project to provide basic softcode/hardcode snippets, advice, and documentation for BattleTechMUX players and staffers alike. This is of particular interest to BTMux coders and admins. |
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- Project administrators: grantblackman, patrickblackman |
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- The communities minister says all those living in hostels and temporary accommodation should have "minimum rights". |
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- Rangers insist they are still negotiating with Feyenoord over the transfer of Thomas Buffel. |
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- Unsettled midfielder Lee Makel is to move from Plymouth to Dunfermline. |
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- You will save BIG at the Norm Thompson post-holiday sale! With Christmas come and gone, now is the best time to score some great deals! Up to 97 items are reduced 40% or more! |
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- Israeli authorities indicted four antique dealers and collectors Wednesday on charges of running a sophisticated forgery ring that created a trove of fake biblical artifacts, including some hailed as among the most important archaeological objects ever uncovered in the region. |
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- Project description: SushiWiki is a WikiWikiWeb like Web application running on .NET platforms. It is written in C#, uses ASP.NET features and stores data in SQL databases or flat XML files. |
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- Project administrators: egroise |
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- Most recent daily statistics (27 Dec 2004): Ranking: 4618, Activity percentile: 72.38%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (27 Dec 2004): Download count: 16 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushiwiki-devel |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (27 Dec 2004): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- In September 2004, Forrester surveyed 1,197 technology decision-makers at US SMBs and 535 technology decision-makers at European SMBs regarding their IT spending and purchase plans for 2005. Europeans are more optimistic than their US counterparts — 67% of Europeans SMBs expect at least a positive 2005 for their industry, compared with just 40% of US SMBs. |
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- Both Qwest Communications and Sprint currently offer a variety of VoIP solutions that range from IP PBX design, installation, and maintenance to hosted offers and WAN trunking. However, when compared with each other and with other providers, Qwest and Sprint currently have some large gaps, and both plan to fill many of these in the coming year. Compared with Qwest, Sprint supports more brands of IP PBX as part of its standard offer, and it also provides a managed WAN-centric VoIP service, although this won't be productized until 2005. Qwest precedes Sprint in offering a softswitch-based hosted IP telephony (IPT) service in many major metropolitan areas and, unlike Sprint, it currently offers a packet-based integrated access service. |
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