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A sporting sendoff from Aon …

Friday, April 9th, 2010

You can learn a lot by the way companies generally act when employees leave for another job, whether it’s with suspicion, enthusiasm or indifference. But what does it say when a company doesn’t just pay an executive to do something else — it keeps right on paying him?
That’s what Aon Corp. (AON) did with Ted [...]

Odds & ends …

Monday, April 5th, 2010

The long weekend brought a bounty of riches to the footnoted table: some amusing, some intriguing, some just odd. Rather than focus on just one, we decided to take a quick spin through a few of the more unusual:
Risky eating — The health-reform bill may prove better for your waistline than some restaurant bottom lines. [...]

Watching for the bulls to return…

Friday, February 26th, 2010

As the SEC deadline looms for large accelerated filers to file their 10-Ks by Monday, we’re reviewing literally hundreds of filings a day.  Besides disclosing the state of their own debts, revenues, legal affairs (and so much more!), many companies are also discussing the state of the economy and what they think the future holds.
While [...]

Fun with SEC filings!

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

As footnoted regulars know, SEC filings aren’t always that much fun. But this video, which I shot for CBS Moneywatch, tries to look at the lighter side of digging through filings. As an added plus, it shows how hard Kumara, the brain behind footnoted, really works.