Corporate Finance

Companies are boosting estimates of this year's healthcare cost increase.

BrightScope lets employees and employers see how their defined-contribution plans rate.

And stock awards continue to squeeze out cash incentives, FEI survey shows.

Companies are boosting estimates of this year's healthcare cost increase.

The volatility in financial markets has resulted in another bad year for companies' retirement plans, and the more than 330 finance executives who responded to Treasury & Risk's 2009 Retirement Survey seem to be taking a fairly downbeat view.

State of Pay

Although a few companies had made savvy moves with their plans before the crisis hit, the ailing economy is prompting many to freeze their pension plans and eliminate matches for 401(k)s.

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