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The 30-year now looks awfully expensive. A lot of people are apparently betting on the need for long duration from pension and insurance funds.

Robert Auwaerter

This super tax subtracts directly from saving, it decreases future tax revenues and increases future age pension payments.

Heather Ridout

I don't know of any bills we have. My pension and Social Security aren't huge, but between them we do nicely. We don't require a whole lot.

Bill Brockmann

The last time his steward heard from him was two weeks ago when he asked about his pension.

Jeff Candage

Investors, especially pension funds, have lots of cash set aside to buy bonds, and most of that money is still waiting to be used for purchasing debt.

Masahiro Kami

All the other themes -- among them job stability, subcontracting, the length of the collective agreement, pension fund -- weren't answered in the employer's offer. The workers expressed their desire to see these issues dealt with.

Benoit Fillion

If you talk to pension funds, for example, there is widespread recognition that commodities need to be in a portfolio.

James Gutman

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

John Gotti

People consider it a very inequitable way to run a pension system.

Richard Jackson

Since there is no requirement that they offer [a pension] in the first place, there's no requirement that they keep doing it.

Jack Vanderhei

I fully expect that Congress will iron out the differences. With Social Security reform a bust, pension reform is a must.

James Klein

Next year's budget - not the one presently presented, but the one after it - is going to be a crisis for the pension funds.

Irene Rubin

Pension, health care and job security. It hasn't changed for us from the beginning. Those are still the top issues.

Connie Kelliher

There's constant demand for longer debt from pension funds and other investors who follow the index.

Koji Mori

The financial risk has definitely shifted to the individual as pension plans are fast becoming a thing of the past.

Jon Dauphine

We need fewer people. We need fewer job classes. We need health care cost sharing. And we need pension plans we can afford.

James Wainscott

To think you have to get to the pension board meetings early, it just goes to show what a circus the city has become.

Joan Raymond

They were trying to pocket the money they weren't contributing to the defined benefit pension plan, and we called their bluff on it.

John Culp

If they came around on all the other issues, we'd have to take a hard and serious look at whether to include the pension plan or doing something else. But if they won't hire back the guys they fired, I don't see how we can do it.

Don Crisato

However, high net worth individuals in the U.S. are less likely to ask questions than pension funds and endowments.

David Goldstein

We received assurances over questions we had regarding the financial characteristics of the new company and the transfer of pension assets.

Jimmy Gurganus

Overall, the funded status changed from an undercover of EUR6.6 billion to an undercover of EUR7.2 billion. In the medium term, we aim to fully cover our pension obligations.

Bodo Uebber

We have already softened our stand and asked the management to bring down the pension benefit to the general manager level from our earlier demand up to the deputy managing director level.

Amar Pal

There has not been a major airline which has gone through bankruptcy without terminating its pension plans.

Douglas Elliott

The pension system, collectively, has been just slammed on the low yields.

Lou Crandall

It means working longer to get a similar annual pension, but one that is more secure. This should address the pension problem at British Airways once and for all.

Willie Walsh

It's paper archaeology from the pension applications, the newspaper accounts, the correspondence of George Washington, and some British journals.

Todd W. Braisted

I don't see any reason to make a study of pension enhancements when the [city's fiscal] plan prohibits them.

James Roberts

The bottom line is that, when you start taking a look at the accounting differences, it comes down to we're about $117 million higher than Consumers and about two-thirds of that can be attributable to health care and pension benefits.

Lorie Kessler

Fighting corruption and keeping the mob out of our union and their hands out of our pension funds.

Ken Hall

Lucent's accounting practices will now be more in line with those of most major U.S. corporations. Lucent's method of valuing pension and benefit assets had been among the most conservative of the more than 150 large U.S. corporations surveyed by our auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Donald Peterson

It is bad news for taxpayers, who might have to cover part of the unfunded pension costs for Northwest and Delta employees.

John Spratt

Sometimes we will send notice on items sent in by a third party. There could have been a pension account.

Bill Brunson

If the government imposes an increase in the pension age my view is that industrial action is absolutely inevitable.

Mark Serwotka

[AMR] felt it was important to provide the senior management and their families with the same level of pension security as that of its other employees.

James Little

There is a huge pension problem here and someone is going to have to pay for it.

Douglas Elliott

American business is turning its back on the defined benefit pension system. They're basically leaving the employees who built these companies in the dust.

John Hotz

The combination of rules allows companies to go for years on end without putting any money into their pension plans.

Bradley Belt

Will make it more difficult for airlines to convince a bankruptcy judge that they cannot make reasonable pension payments.

Johnny Isakson

This board is fully committed to dealing with that pension. It's just an issue of timing.

Denis Turcotte

The former cricketers had played in the era when there was little money in domestic and international cricket and therefore, the proposed pension would cater to their needs.

Ajay Jadeja

If you believe this pension-fund legislation will occur, and if you believe there is asset and liability mismatch, then I think you would have to say a 50-year bond could very well occur.

Brian Robinson

They're going to have to find someone other than George Mitchell to stand as chairman in order to satisfy the pension funds that are voting against Eisner.

Paul Hodgson

To politicians who say we're in such a bind now, you have to look at what the politicians did. The reason they can't afford these plans is that in many cases they enjoyed pension holidays, and now they have to catch up.

Frederick Nesbitt

We do not have any paperwork on file from Delphi indicating they wish to terminate their pension plan.

Jeffrey Speicher

We had an incredible run - it was probably the best time to be running a pension plan.

Robert Scott

I will close down the existing pension plan for future employees.

Jerry Sanders

It's a country developing very fast and it deserves to have low credit spreads. Investors like myself with pension funds and central banks will just buy into any weakness.

Jerome Booth

Pension funds are caught in a vicious circle. The UK gilt market has now almost completely detached itself from economic fundamentals and has become a story of pension fund demand and Government supply.

Chris Hartley

I wouldn't be surprised (at those performances). When you think about that, European pension funds invest primarily in the U.K. and Europe.

Mark Anson

The best auction will be the long bond. We expect great demand from overseas accounts in the long bond specifically, as pension rules in Europe are much more strict than current rules in the U.S. and these rules favor bonds over stocks.

Andy Brenner

We want to stress the importance of pension and child-care issues ... The Koizumi government cannot achieve these reforms. We need a change in government.

Katsuya Okada

We are not happy with the pension proposals put forward by BA and part of the meeting today (Wednesday) was to say why. But, equally, we were clear today was the first in a long series of meetings. We expect the negotiations to be both lengthy and complex.

Brendan Gold

Demand from pension fund and insurers should be relatively firm.

Thomas Lam

We are the pension payout leaders in Namibia since 1999 and are currently managing a system, for the past six years, which has serviced pension users and beneficiaries all over the country.

Haddis Tilahun

At the corporate level, the big downturn in equity prices has smashed company pension funds, forcing companies to put more money back into their pension plans. Anything that helps to stop [the downturn in equities] could be helpful.

Rory Robertson

Consumers have lost billions of dollars -- one group put a $500 billion price tag on the amount of money consumers and pension funds and others have lost through corporate scandals. Consumers need greater assurance that somebody's watching out for their interest.

Frank Torres

It's a formula to introduce pension cuts through the back- door.

Stefan Bielmeier

We had an opportunity. We didn't fully fund the pension system that we neglected last year.

Sen. Joyce Mulliken

In a recession, people will conclude it's better not to pay the IRS. But you should go out of business before you get behind in payroll taxes. The IRS is extremely aggressive. It will go after your home, your car, your pension - everything.

Paul Hense

With pension funds and individual investors keen to address the lack of commodity exposure in their portfolios, the re-discovery of this ancient and not-so-alternative asset class should help sustain the first great commodity uplift in three decades.

Jack Malvey

We could take a big hit with wages, work rules and not get any pension at all.

Bobby De Pace

We know we have to contribute about $400,000 of property taxes in 2007 and 2008 into pensions and $475,000 into the pension this year. Pension obligation is first; it's not an option.

Jan Mills

Our understanding is that he was going to make the full pension payment, which would be a breath of fresh air. The problems of the pension fund are solely problems of their own making.

Jim Marketti

I don't believe the city attorney can advise both city management and the pension system on the same issues.

William Sheffler

Boeing can easily afford this purchase, with nearly $10 billion in cash and marketable securities on hand at the end of the first quarter, and bountiful free cash flow even after substantial pension fund contributions.

Carol Levenson

This deal ... will mean a strong steel company in Hamilton and will mean a viable pension plan.

Greg Sorbara

There's a good case to be made that they're going to be as well off, if not better off, than people with traditional pension coverage.

Stephen Utkus

There is a long-term favorable backdrop to long-term securities in demand from the pension industry.

Jason Evans

As long as companies remain in operation with ongoing pension plans, they have a legal obligation to meet their funding requirements.

Bradley Belt

That means any Monday night our retirees or our members could have their pension arbitrarily reduced any Monday night, that's a very scary thought.

Bob Davidson

These regulations will mean that employees will now have a voice about any major changes to their pension scheme.

Stephen Timms

I challenge us to look hard at funding this pension however we need to do it.

Kelly Ross

It is definitely the most significant change we've seen in pension accounting in quite some time.

Dane Mott

The pension is a serious problem.

Lee Moak

They're going to need that money because their new career is not going to provide them with a pension.

Beth Allen

People are worried if you look at what's happened to pension plans across this country.

Rosemary Coyle

I'm just worried about pension and medical.

John Jenkins

As written, the voters will not have any authority over decisions like those made by past City Councils to shortchange the pension system.

Joan Raymond

Ford has experienced a marked deterioration in its pension funding levels due to poor investment portfolio performance.

Scott Sprinzen

I'm just worried about pension and medical, ... when I do get ready to retire, it is set up for me.

John Jenkins

Pension funds need long bonds and will be eager to buy at the auction. Demand will be quite strong.

Masayuki Senda

Asset liability matching demand from pension funds will support the longer end and assuming the ECB hikes rates aggressively, we might see a flat yield curve by April.

Kornelius Purps

Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

Steve Bartlett

Frank has been the financial conscious of this township. I served with him on the pension committee. His mind and his way with numbers is extraordinary. That has been a great benefit to this community.

Pete Stainthorpe

The death of pension plans.

Doug Lockwood

I think they definitely listened to the primary dealer community and believed there is demand from the pension community. I don't want to say they were duped, but they believe that story.

Steve Rodosky

Now he's been kind of forced into that position since this gives him a shot at a full pension. Given what is happening right now, this is probably the best he can do.

Robert Stewart

There are a lot of employees who are going to be fighting back this year. That's another story -- the employee pension revolution!

Karen Friedman

No one was screaming when the city was paying virtually nothing into the pension system.

Randi Weingarten

Under current law, the only way an airline can avoid burdensome pension costs is by entering bankruptcy and terminating the plans.

Duane Woerth

The next 12 months will not only determine the very future of the domestic automobile industry as we know it, but Detroit will become the lightning rod for the most pressing issues facing this country -- health care costs, pension reform, global competition and its threat to the industrial foundation of America.

Peter Delorenzo

For all residual risks to the pension plan ? both outcomes that lead to deficits and outcomes that lead to surpluses.

David Dodge

Other than the postal bills, there are no concrete plans about important issues such as tax reform, pension reform, decentralization and diplomacy.

Seiji Maehara

China still has a great number of employees and individuals from non- public ownership enterprises excluded from the present old-age pension system.

Tian Chengping

Nothing in the bankruptcy code requires companies to skip their pension funding payments.

Bradley Belt

The Company netted positive cash flow of $15.9 million during 2005 -- after funding all of our operating needs, $20.2 million in capital expenditures, $15.0 million in pension contributions, $5.2 million in restructuring costs, and $26.6 million in dividend payments.

Dennis Rediker

For the first time since August 2001, the Treasury will attempt to ease the pain for pension funds and insurance companies who need long assets to pay for a growing number of baby boomers.

Kevin Giddis

We believe this framework will enable Royal Mail to invest in the business, meet its obligations to the pension fund and build on these achievements going forwards.

Nigel Stapleton

This bill strengthens corporate accountability and auditor integrity, addresses conflicts of interest, and protects employees, pension holders and investors against fraud and deception.

Paul Sarbanes

That to me is the problem. Private-equity groups are notoriously shy of taking on huge pension deficits. And as deficits go, there are not many bigger than this.

Stuart Gordon

Those three factors, pension, labor and fuel prices, will likely be the major consideration as they come up to Oct. 17.

Philip Baggaley

The government now faces the difficult decision of how far and how fast it can move to reform of the state pension.

Lord Turner

I started paying into the local pension when I was 19. At that time, you take the advice of the government for the future - pay into a pension. You never think that they will deceive you and just take it away from you.

Adrian Jones

We believe more clients will adopt the Roth 401(k) if EGTRRA provisions are made permanent, which may happen as part of pension reform legislation currently before Congress.

Steve Patterson

Companies have been subject to pressures to look after shareholders by increasing dividends and doing share buybacks and also having to put money into their own pension funds.

Chris Iggo

We did a little bit better on wages that [were] offered to us, but we were not successful in getting the pension proposal that we were hoping for.

Al Harrison

Overall, pension schemes are well governed and continue to succeed in delivering decent, cost-effective pensions to millions of people.

Christine Farnish

Pension funds have become increasingly active investors in commodities, and the growth in the quantum of funds invested has been truly spectacular.

Malcolm Southwood

There's a constant rate of retirees, pension and medical payments. Nucor doesn't have that, so it's tough competing with that.

John Tumazos

To now come in and say this horrible tragedy occurred and we need to go after some of his settlement money for lost future wages so we can pay back the pension fund -- it makes no sense to me.

Eric Stoltenberg

Workers at Caterpillar made the company into the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment and were assured free lifetime health care coverage. Caterpillar should not charge them for any portion of their health care coverage through deductions from their pension benefits.

Elizabeth Alexander