Month: January 2020

This year may bring sticker shock for publicly traded U.S. companies when they get their insurance bill. The risks of being sued have skyrocketed and the price of insurance premiums is rising right alongside, especially for liability insurance to cover directors and officers, or D&O. Insurance broker and consulting firm Woodruff Sawyer said D&O costs
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Getty Images In a tweet Thursday, President Trump blamed you for your 401(k) balance. Trump tweeted: “STOCK MARKET AT ALL-TIME HIGH! HOW ARE YOUR 401K’S DOING? 70%, 80%, 90% up? Only 50% up! What are you doing wrong?” There are a lot of ideas packed into those 22 words and most of them are misleading.
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Economic Security Planning, Inc. Today’s column addresses questions about filing at FRA or delaying till 70, the ability to collect spousal benefits, the earnings test, drawing benefits while living with a partner and drawing benefits while living in another country. Larry Kotlikoff is a Professor of Economics at Boston University and the founder and president
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Lantern House Related Companies A new development along the High Line in lower Manhattan is igniting interest ahead of its imminent sales launch early this year. Being built by Related Companies, Lantern House, named for its uniquely-shaped bay windows that resemble the antique-style lighting fixture, is the first residential project in the United States from
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A colleague of one of the flight crew members of the Ukrainian 737-800 plane that crashed on the outskirts of Tehran, lights candles at a memorial inside Borispil international airport outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Efrem Lukatsky | AP Rescue workers on Wednesday combed through wreckage of Kyiv-bound Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752
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People burn a poster representing US President Donald Trump to protest against the killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in Iraq. PRAKASH SINGH | AFP | Getty Images A former CIA officer told CNBC on Thursday that it’s likely Iran will carry out small-scale cyberattacks to avoid U.S. retaliation. “They perfectly understand that the U.S.
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Chief financial officers at big U.S. companies enter 2020 on a cautious note, with almost all anticipating an economic slowdown against the backdrop of an overvalued stock market, according to a survey released Thursday. The Deloitte CFO Signals Survey showed that while the corporate leaders see the economy as “good,” they anticipate that before the
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Following a secretive escape last week from Japan to Lebanon, former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn publicly defended himself Wednesday — for the first time since his initial arrest in November 2018 — against accusations of financial misconduct and misuse of corporate resources. Ghosn adamantly denied all charges against him and defended his decision to become
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Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), speaks in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 2019. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Governments should consider raising taxes on society’s wealthiest to tackle inequality, according to the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a blog post on Tuesday, Kristalina Georgieva, managing
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