Hints and tips:
...In late March Capita first disclosed an “IT issue” that left staff unable to access some systems and disrupted services provided to local authority clients....
...Should my husband buy an annuity? My husband has an adequate pension fund invested in very low-risk equities. He is 73, very healthy, and has no immediate plans to retire....
...For the first time in a long time, annuities look “good value” versus keeping your DC savings and drawing down each month, but with no guaranteed amount and no guarantee you won’t run out of money....
...“People increasingly like the local element of making,” she says....
...If you’re heading for a retirement that includes no car or annual foreign holiday and only £54 a week for food you may feel like you’re losing the savings game....
...AEL, as it’s known, is one of the biggest peddlers of retirement annuities....
...“We wanted to show the kids that with their local trees, we can create really interesting artworks,” Attali says. Local flower pigments were also used to stain the pieces....
...He then tried to create a congregation among the large free black community in Philadelphia, but the local bishop told him that “I will receive you into this diocese on one condition: No negro priest can...
...The desire for an “investment big bang” is also coming with looser caps on fees paid by defined contribution pension schemes, and a push for local government pension funds to set aside money to go into local...
...Trade purchasers of fellow fund managers will keep on acquiring — witness Perpetual of Australia bidding A$2.4bn (US$1.8bn) for local rival Pendal — because of secular pressures....
...New club owners willing to fund rebuilds in cities such as Milan and Rome have also been delayed by local political wrangling....
...“These are very significant sums because the level of poverty has grown significantly,” said Evelyn Carpenter, cabinet member for education at Barking and Dagenham council....
...Britain’s housing market may no longer be defying gravity....
...The central government has been slow to respond to their desperate appeals for funds. It turns out that the prime minister’s National Relief Fund has no ready cash available....
...And the carpenters were acting, as far as we can tell, of their own volition.”...
...“Local private sector players want to limit competition so they can make excessive returns....
...We do not know the timing, structure or pricing of the fund raise....
...Standard Chartered had been touted as a likely anchor investor but is understood to have made no firm commitment....
...From Mark Zuckerberg promising to fund a technological revolution in the way kids are taught, to the slew of east coast hedge fund managers promoting charter schools as a way to shake-up public education...
...If you were to sell now, you could use the proceeds to buy an immediate needs care annuity....
...Beside the bookshelves will be a noticeboard with information about local food banks and a donations box to raise funds....
...If property is owned and no one else lives there, the local authority can secure a charge on it so that the fees it pays are repaid later....
...The regulator has no sensible way of stepping in when care homes teeter towards bankruptcy....
...Thanks to quantitative easing, super low interest rates and the need for the pension freedom generation to use the equity income to replicate the annuities they no longer want to pay for, ordinary investors...
...The union said it would be making no recommendation to its members on the package....
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