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...As opposed to shareholder-owned banks, where excess capital is often returned to investors, mutuals use profits to reinvest in the business or benefit customers....
...Analysis from The Pensions Regulator suggests that more than 3,750 of the UK’s defined benefit-style retirement plans have assets in excess of their liabilities or are in surplus. Read more here...
...The current rules, which differ from plan to plan, make it difficult or in some cases impossible to tap excess cash and are designed to protect members’ benefits which need to be funded during their lifetimes...
...Gilmore “has a fine reputation”, said Richard Ennis, founder of Ennis Knupp & Associates, a consultancy that works with public pension plans, adding that his “first challenge” would be to generate the excess...
...Certainly, some advisers are recommending their clients crystallise excess funds to protect against a future tax charge, but with no guarantees....
...The UK data watchdog has warned that government plans to combat benefits fraud by probing the bank accounts of welfare recipients would allow “significant intrusion” of privacy rights....
...“What we have at the moment is a 0 per cent tax on excess benefits,” he said....
...Previously on FTAV: the Pension Protection Fund reckons it would make a great public sector superfund, helping to solve Britain’s under-investment crisis even if its asset allocation plans may, counter-intuitively...
...The Financial Times reported late in 2022 that Blackstone had delayed plans to launch the BXPE fund owing to the redemptions requests at Breit....
...Have you made any pension provision?I have a small pension from Deloitte. The business is probably my pension. Until recently any profit went back into the company....
...Imagine, for a moment, that the chancellor’s plans to create the UK Isa have been fast tracked....
...Economists have spent a lot of time lately thinking about the implications of “excess savings”: money that households built up during the pandemic when they were locked down with nothing but Netflix and...
...Ofwat’s concerns come despite equity injections across the industry totalling £4.6bn since 2020, from investors that include a clutch of pension, private equity and sovereign wealth funds....
...Next, making the most of tax-enhancing wrappers such as pensions and Isas (both using our annual allowances while we are earning or having excess cash and drawing down from them optimally)....
...Claer Barrett Well, both of those measures — NatWest and the UK ISAs — combined with plans to force pension funds to disclose what proportion of UK shares they hold, a rule designed to boost London’s flagging...
...of private equity, pension and sovereign wealth funds....
...So there’s no reason to speak about excess or inefficiency in public spending”....
...A voluntary scheme agreed in 2019 caps growth in the NHS bill for branded medicines at 2 per cent a year; drugmakers have to pay back any excess....
...It often also suits investors such as pension funds to cling on to upbeat, but stale, valuations....
...Roman: You have a stronger bank, and if we know what we are doing, you have higher expected returns for many people who have money in a pension plan, or a mutual fund, or for an insurance company....
...The best way to avoid disputes after your death is to plan during your lifetime. You should consult professionals as early as possible....
...In November it sold a 25 per cent stake in its UK electricity transmission network to the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan for £1.5bn to help raise funds for investment....
...The UK closure, which was first reported by Citywire, throws into uncertainty Vanguard’s plans to roll out similar pension advice services in Germany and other European markets....
...Lukama is tasked with drawing up a turnround plan, including reducing hefty pension liabilities....
...Protests against Macron’s unpopular pension plans have taken a more unpredictable turn since the government bypassed a parliamentary vote in mid-March to pass the law, leading to a backlash on the streets...
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