[rossbmiller]

I once saw an interesting research report comparing publicly traded companies based on their outstanding pension / retirement plan debt. The investment thesis was essentially advocating for shorting the companies with the largest under-funding of said plans, based on the assumption that a company that didn't give a crap about its employees probably wouldn't stand the test of time.

[basementcat]

Maybe said underfunded pension funds should buy large leveraged short positions in their parent companies and cash out after announcing an impending pension shortfall.

This probably violates a bunch of SEC regulations.