Hints and tips:
...The UK government’s top infrastructure adviser has hit out at a drive to push pension schemes to invest more in Britain, saying there is “no reason” funds should have a home bias....
...Weingarten: There are times as an AFT trustee, when you’re sitting on the board of a pension fund and you see $4bn in front of you and you have to make an investment decision. Wow....
...The UK has a long involvement with the space industry through our world-beating science and technology base and satellite manufacturing capabilities....
...The pension trustees should get £20mn from Wilko’s property assets, although it is unclear what the pension deficit is....
...By 2030, the majority of workplace DC savers will have their pension pots managed in schemes of over £30 billion and by 2040 all local government pension funds will be invested in pools of £200 billion or...
...In the March Budget, the Treasury flagged further reorganisation of local government pension assets....
...The most jaw-dropping evidence so far came from the partner of the head of Lloyds Bank Pensions, who spilled the LBG beans — a “clear breach of confidentiality” according to the trade union....
...The flip side of that is in both of these cases where you have U-turns or potential U-turns that carry quite a lot of political risks, right?...
...Pension trustees have a legal responsibility to deliver the best returns for pension holders — it’s their money after all....
...And while the controversial bill is currently stalled by union infighting, the Church of England’s mighty pension fund recently announced its own divestment plans, and climate campaigners are cranking up...
...The closest thing that the UK has to Canada’s public pension plans are the local government pension schemes, which are around 90 regional funds, and these are quite heavily invested in equities already and...
...A group of Croatian private pension funds stepped up to take an interest in one of their largest contributing companies....
...Things are moire complicated still across the Channel for Emmanuel Macron, where further strike action over his pension reforms may be the least of his worries, given the vote of no confidence his party...
...The Chamber of Corporate Trustees, a body representing private pension funds in Ghana, rejected the latest deal last week....
...Our pensions are in the NHS scheme and the rent on the premises is paid for by the local health board. What would change if I were salaried, and paid directly by the NHS?...
...no chances....
...Court in one of the year’s most significant judicial reviews UK, more than 100 members of the PCS union at the British Museum begin seven days of strike action over pay, pensions, job security and redundancy...
...Kate Barker: No single policy would do much alone. But improvements to the planning framework by taking a proper spatial view of the UK and a robust approach to local objections might be my favourites....
...While the ice-cream brand sought to distance itself from the BDS movement, US state pension funds began divesting from the group, citing laws designed to combat BDS, many of which had been passed in recent...
...SOC Investment Group, which works with union-sponsored pension funds holding about 1.8 million shares of SBUX, has called on Starbucks to review its succession-planning policy....
...The local governments all say the particular thing there is that the unions actually have bargaining arrangements with the Local Government Association there, so it’s not quite the same sort of handed-down-from-central-government...
...He used it to create stipends for local causes. While Jakob produced no heirs, his nephew subsequently created a legal structure for the organisation that continues to fund the Fuggerei....
...Back to the future: Porsche’s IPO gives a sense of déjà vu As with many of Volkswagen’s most important announcements in the past decade, the German group’s management board had no control over the timing...
...in order,” says Helen Price, head of stewardship at Brunel Pension Partnership, which manages money for local government pension schemes in the UK....
...France’s Renault is in a tight spot as one of the larger car companies in Russia, including its controlling stake in Lada, a brand synonymous with the Soviet Union....
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