They are not going to loot Star Wars for a short term payout, they fully intend to milk such properties for (literally) generations and will make their choices accordingly.

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"Neither the office of the attorney general nor the comptroller's office, agencies with knowledge of the settlement agreement and the secret payout, raised any objection to inclusion of such a confidentiality clause, " the report stated.

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That General Mills managed such robust dividend payouts without putting upward pressure on the dividend payout ratio (the percentage of profits the dividend represents) and the cash dividend payout ratio (the proportion of free cash flow that goes to dividend payouts) is good evidence that its dividend gravy train is in great shape.

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For a firm that probably would have collapsed without government capital, debt guarantees and fast-track approval to turn itself into a commercial bank (not to mention a multi-billion-dollar payout as a counterparty of American International Group), such largesse is cheeky at best, distasteful at worst.

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Under the old rules, determining your mandatory payout rate involved making irrevocable choices based on messy guesses, such as which spouse would die first.

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In this case, the Maryland courts looked past the loss of the Freeds to examine the real issue in such litigation: Is every tragedy the catalyst for a multimillion-dollar payout?

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The new payout rules also apply to distributions from non-IRA pension plans, such as 401(k)s.

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If the CDS payout had not been triggered, the private sector investors would view the purchase of such sovereign debt as having significantly more risk, and that would result in a much higher interest cost of that sovereign debt to the issuing countries.

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