Both sides agreed that generic statements about firms’ integrity and honesty can sometimes be the basis for securities fraud class-action suits. WASHINGTON — A frustrated Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in a securities fraud class-action case against Goldman Sachs, with several justices indicating puzzlement about what they were meant to do in light of
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And homes on courses are the place to be now, not something you save for vacation or retirement. For the first 15 years of his career developing real estate focused around golf courses, Mike Meldman had never really played. “I didn’t golf at all. The golf was an amenity to sell the real estate,” he
The new legal classification, which follows a U.K. court ruling last month, will entitle the workers to more pay and benefits, but stops short of making them employees. LONDON — For years, Uber has successfully deployed armies of lawyers and lobbyists around the world to fight attempts to reclassify drivers as company workers entitled to
Millions have left the labor force in the last year, many home with children or health concerns. The statistics may not reflect their aspirations. Robert Hesse was expecting an imminent promotion to manager of Sub Zero Ice Cream, a nitrogen ice cream shop in Ventura, Calif., when it shut down in March because of the
Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story The Labor Department will not enforce two Trump-era rules regulating retirement plans. March 11, 2021, 9:25 a.m. ET The Biden administration will not enforce two Trump-era rules involving retirement plans, including one that effectively discouraged administrators for those plans from choosing investments
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Advertisement Continue reading the main story Opinion Supported by Continue reading the main story Too Much Choice Is Hurting America Learning from subprime, health care and electricity. Opinion Columnist March 1, 2021, 7:00 p.m. ET Credit…Peter van Agtmael/Magnum Photos Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, is clearly what my father would have called a
Advertisement Continue reading the main story DealBook<!– –> Business and Policy Supported by Continue reading the main story To Plug a Pension Gap, This City Rented Its Streets. To Itself. Cities and states issued at least $6.1 billion in pension bonds last year. Novel ways to do so include renting property they already own under
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Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story retiring Saving at Work for Retirement: A Perk Coming to More States in 2021 The automatic I.R.A., administered by state governments, will be more widely available. “I didn’t have to invest a lot of time figuring it out, and it’s free,” Denise
The Coronavirus Outbreak liveLatest Updates Maps and Cases The Latest Vaccine Information U.S. Deaths Surpass 300,000 F.A.Q. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Workers Tap Retirement Savings as a Last Resort At least two million workers have turned to their workplace retirement plans for cash under temporary rules
Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story retiring Female Workers Could Take Another Pandemic Hit: To Their Retirements Unequal job losses now will translate into smaller nest eggs and Social Security benefits down the road. “Women can’t be full participants in the labor force and pay into their retirement
Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Your Money A New Way to Invest for the Vengeful and the High-Minded Big investment managers are buying up companies that help with so-called direct indexing, which offers clients a way to boot individual companies from their portfolios. It has tax benefits,
TOKYO — For more than a decade, Setsuko Hikita spent her working days selling snacks and newspapers in the bowels of Tokyo’s bustling metro system. Amid the chaos of morning commutes and the scramble to catch the last train home, she kept her employers’ tiny kiosks a haven of well-ordered commerce. Her company once awarded
When Dray Farley was 15, he watched a video his favorite gamer had posted on YouTube. But it wasn’t about Call of Duty. “It was how to get rich in 22 years, and the general math and concept of compound interest, the snowball effect, and how eventually your gains are making gains,” Mr. Farley said.
Paula Brynen has been finding a sense of purpose in volunteer work for years — and even more so after her job as a fund-raiser for public television in California was eliminated two years ago. Having survived leukemia in 2011, she volunteers with the local chapter of the nonprofit Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, work that
Social Security has always seemed like a future problem, with experts long predicting a benefits squeeze in the decades ahead. But the coronavirus has put tens of millions of Americans out of work, and economists are predicting that the recovery will take years. That means the future is now. If nothing is done to shore
In early 2000, Michael and Lynn Terry started a business selling horse trailers that were lighter than their competitors’ and customized to each client’s needs. Nearly two decades later, their company, Cimarron Trailers, with tens of millions of dollars in sales, employed over 130 people in Chickasha, Okla., and their trailers were sold at 30
A pension fund for Pennsylvania teachers said it had frozen new investments with Apollo Global Management amid concerns about ties between its founder, Leon Black, and Jeffrey Epstein. The $63 billion Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System said it spoke with Apollo officials last week after a New York Times report detailed the financial ties