From the WSJ:
Banks are using a little-known tactic to help pay bonuses, deferred pay and pensions they owe executives: They're holding life-insurance policies on hundreds of thousands of their workers, with themselves as the beneficiaries.
Banks took out much of this life insurance during the mortgage bubble, when executives' pay -- and the IOUs for their deferred compensation -- surged, and banking regulators affirmed the use of life insurance as a way to finance executive pay and benefits.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124277653430137033.html
You want job security? Be accident prone, or an extreme sport participant that cliff dives on the weekend and goes to Iraq for a vacation and these bankers will keep you around!
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