USA Today had a good summary yesterday of attempts to rein in 401k fees, a subject I’ve followed for a long time. New to me, though, was mention of BrightScope, a website that rates employers’ 401k plans.  It gives each plan a numeric…

If you were the Express Scripts person in charge of the relationship with Walgreens, you might be in need of a few aspirin at the very least. The Wall Street Journal reports that the big pharmacy benefits manager and the big…

For months, we’ve been posting information here about how much St. Louis companies pay their chief executives. Now, with the spring disclosure season nearly over, we thought it was time to tally up the numbers. Today’s column mentions some findings,…

Express Scripts Chief Executive George Paz got a $2.45 million bonus last year, the maximum possible under the company’s incentive plan, as part of $12.77 million in total compensation. The tally in Express Scripts’ proxy statement, filed last week, also…

We all know that Anheuser-Busch doesn’t qualify for Fortune 500 status any more, but it isn’t as if all the big headquarters have vanished. St. Louis officially has seven companies on the new list, and can claim eight if you…

The list of financial stocks that come under the SEC’s short-selling ban keeps growing, and some of the additions are real head-scratchers. Ford, General Electric and General Motors are puzzling enough, but they seem to be on the list because each…

Fortune magazine gives St. Louis credit for eight companies in the new Fortune 500 list. That’s the same number as last year, which isn’t bad in this era of corporate consolidation. The Regional Chamber and Growth Association, though, wants to boost our number…

George Paz, chief executive of Express Scripts, got the maximum payout under his bonus plan last year as part of a $7.96 million pay package, the company discloses in a proxy statement filed with the SEC.

Paz got a salary of $882,808…

Four St. Louis companies saw their stocks double in value during 2007, and three of them have to give some  credit to the alternative-energy craze. MEMC Electronic Materials, up 126 percent, is considered a solar-energy play because its silicon wafers…

The “e” section of the local stocks table will have some big numbers in tomorrow’s paper. Shares of Energizer and Express Scripts both are surging ahead this morning on strong earnings news. Express Scripts raised its 2007 guidance in an…