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Don't get caught losing your home and retirement fund
Tribune NewspapersYou're barely keeping up with the mortgage as it is. Now the interest rate on your adjustable-rate loan is about to reset higher. Casting about for a solution, your eyes fall upon your biggest pot of savings: your 401(k). Should you go there? Others...Tags: Career and Workplace, Credit and Debt, Retirement, Employees, Money and Monetary Policy
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Empty office building symbolizes weak suburban market
In a chilling sign for the suburban office market, all of Two Overlook Point in Lincolnshire is empty and being marketed for sublease, said brokers who have toured it. The building was fully occupied this summer. Hewitt Associates Inc., which is based in...Tags: Mortgages, Real Estate, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated, Chicago Mortgages, Chicago Commercial Real Estate
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Find remedies for benefit cuts
Work for a big company -- or better yet, one of those perennial best-workplace contest winners -- and you're loaded up with benefits, right? Not necessarily. Soaring health costs and a shift away from guaranteed pensions have taken their toll, even among...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, Retirement, Employees, Science and Technology
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Workers still fill 401(k)'s with employer's stock
Sun reporterOn top of all the other troubles at Countrywide Financial Corp., the mortgage giant faces a lawsuit from an employee alleging that workers lost hundreds of millions of dollars in their 401(k) retirement plans by holding the company's stock. The...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, Retirement, Employees, Countrywide Financial Corp.
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Local stocks rise above tumult
Tribune staff reporterAmid rising investor nervousness, volatility and turmoil in debt markets stemming from defaults on subprime mortgages, Chicago-area stocks managed to largely hold their own over the last three months. Perhaps surprisingly, there were only a dozen...Tags: Walgreen Co., CBOT Holdings Incorporated, Auto Trends, Boeing Co., Illinois Tool Works Incorporated
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Benefits audits turn up signs of anger in workers
It's the hot topic in benefits, and no one is hotter about it than workers: employers demanding proof that family members qualify for insurance coverage. Workers often are offended that their company seems to be questioning their honesty. Others are just...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Health Insurance, Career and Workplace, Medical Services
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Returning workers face a complicated situation
Your MoneyCompanies are recruiting former workers back into the fold, another reason to think about your retirement benefits as you walk out, or back in, the door. Kirsten DaSilva, 35, spent the first eight years of her career as an auditor with accounting giant...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, Retirement, Employees, 401K
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Pay-raise projections dip below 3%
Faced with worsening economic conditions, employers are planning to dole out smaller salary increases this year than they had earlier expected, according to a new survey. And given the climate, some workers might not see raises at all. Human resources...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, Employers, Wages and Pensions, Employees
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Default retirement solution not as solid as providing plan advice
Your MoneyEmployers rushing to automatically enroll workers in retirement plans and directing the money to one-stop life-cycle funds are leaving old-fashioned investment advice behind in a cloud of so much dust. That may be a mistake, say advice providers, who are...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, Entertainment, Gaming, Retirement
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Rouse retirees lose health benefits
Sun StaffGeneral Growth Properties Inc., the Chicago real estate giant that bought the Columbia developer Rouse Co. in November, is dropping company-paid health and life insurance for Rouse retirees - a move that follows a national trend but breaks with Rouse's...Tags: Health, Companies and Corporations, Social Issues, Public Employees, Health Insurance
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All-at-once payouts may take their lumps
Your MoneyExpect smaller lumps, but better data, in future pension deals from the boss. The pension overhaul signed this month by President Bush requires employers to use updated life-expectancy tables and a new interest rate benchmark to calculate minimum lump-...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, Demographics, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Retirement
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Shorter-term assets receive a longer look
Your MoneyRetirement money used to be the very definition of long-term investing, with pension managers encouraged to think of their portfolios with time horizons even longer than a single lifetime in order to maximize investment results for the plan over time....Tags: Investment Service, Inflation and Deflation, Career and Workplace, Chicago Real Estate, Morningstar Incorporated
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