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...critical point in time where we have shareholder democracy coming up against a company that is really trying to silence debate,” said Mary Minette, senior director of shareholder advocacy at Mercy Investment Services...
...People familiar with the retirees’ dispute said it centred on a discount rate being used to calculate the lifetime value of the partners’ retirement benefit....
...Under the terms of the original deal, unveiled last month, beneficiaries would get an extra 10 per cent on top of the calculated value of their retirement payments if they signed the waiver....
...One example is the $137bn New York State Teachers’ Retirement System, which sold 34 private equity holdings with $3.5bn in total commitments on the secondary market at the end of last year....
...possible largely thanks to a substantial recent improvement in funding positions for defined benefit pension schemes, which promise members a pension for life — typically based on salary and length of service...
...Although he works for EY’s global operation as managing partner for client service, Baldwin is a partner in the UK member firm, where he was the highest paid person last year, receiving £4.7mn....
...“It’s a way for conservative investors, or those nearing or in retirement, to stay invested in stocks and get some decent upside,” Chaussée said....
...“Inflation has been cooling, but our data shows pay is heating up in both goods and services,” said ADP chief economist Nela Richardson....
...The California Public Employees’ Retirement System has named a former top executive at the New Zealand sovereign wealth fund to direct the largest US public pension plan’s investments following the abrupt...
...the Department for Work and Pensions delegated responsibility for delivering the programme, or the digital architecture to make dashboards work, to one of its arms-length bodies, the Money and Pensions Service...
...ISM Services: Activity in the US services sector is expected to have expanded again in March, ticking up to a reading of 52.7 from 52.6 in February, according to economists polled by Reuters....
...At least five North Korean tankers travelled this month to collect oil products from Vostochny port in east Russia, according to satellite images shared with the FT by the Royal United Services Institute...
...A good way to prepare for the speech, the dot plot and the rest is to read Chris Giles’s admirably clear newsletter about the stalling of US services disinflation....
...The portfolio shake-up, which was confirmed after a scheduled asset allocation review, will bring the California-based plan into line with other big retirement systems in the US, including Calstrs, which...
...Britain’s £1.4tn DB retirement system serves about 10mn retired and current private-sector employees....
...Poorly performing pension plans will be banned from taking on new business as part of a major shake-up of Britain’s £120bn workplace retirement market, under government plans unveiled ahead of next week’...
...Advisers call this the “retirement smile”....
...The 37 partners have agreed to accelerate their retirement as part of the latest overhaul. PwC’s staff were told of the cuts during a call on Wednesday morning....
...borrowing money to help avoid fire sales then this is a risky strategy because the money still needs to be paid back,” said Alasdair Macdonald, head of investment strategy with WTW, a global professional services...
...More than a decade ago when looking at the question of financing, the Independent Public Service Pensions Commission recommended that public service schemes should remain unfunded....
...Whether an older investor looks towards riskier assets may depend on the broader circumstances of their retirement income....
...of retirement remaining....
...A fairly exclusive group of investors rely on them for retirement....
...to have a 100 per cent deficiency rate in audits inspected by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the Colorado state board of accountancy fined him $5,000 earlier this year for bad audits of retirement...
...Any discussion about how to attract more investment into UK infrastructure, start-ups or equities now involves Britons’ retirement savings....
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