June 19, 2012—There's a lot of concern these days about something called retirement security -- the risk that millions of Americans will have too little saved up as they grow too old to work, leaving them dependent on Social Security (about half of retirees ...

September 16, 2010—What's it worth to Weatherford International (WFT) to keep its chief financial officer happy? About $7.25 million, from the looks of the 8-K it filed late yesterday. Weatherford's compensation consultants and attorneys have been having a busy couple years of it. Worried ...

August 3, 2010—It's not often the head of a $3 billion company walks away with more than $130 million. But that's what it looks like Omnicare (OCR) Chief Executive Joel Gemunder could do, with his abrupt retirement and replacement by Omnicare director Denny Shelton, the ...

July 9, 2010—Wearing a belt and suspenders is good insurance, and generally it's no harm to anyone (and maybe a boon to the belt and suspenders industries). But when it comes to executive retirement planning, we're less sanguine about the approach. On Wednesday at a little after ...

June 30, 2010—Talk to longtime AT&T workers, and plenty will characterize the company as anything but gentle when it comes to fiddling with its pension plan. Changes in the late 1990s promised to leave tens of thousands of older employees working for years ...