Hints and tips:
...The first step will be to appoint to the board of the company people who understand your long-term goals for the business and whom you trust to implement these on your death....
...“The challenge of the last decade was how to get people saving. And now the challenge for us is how do we make sure that they get the right value from their savings.”...
...The bulk of assets in UK DC plans — around 75 per cent — are invested in mainstream listed equities, according to the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, an industry body for the workplace pension...
...They note that personal equity plans, which were the main vehicle for individual investment in the UK prior to the introduction of individual savings accounts in 1999, initially had a minimum threshold for...
...“Trustee boards are genuinely struggling through a combination of availability and sometimes understanding,” he said....
...He considers himself a prophet charged with saving Tunisia from the grip of parties, civil society and businessmen....
...“In the aftermath of the LDI crisis the strategic asset allocation of DB schemes will change materially,” says Michael Eakins, chief investment officer at Phoenix Group, one of the UK’s largest savings and...
...Practically, this took the form of “workshopping our initial hypotheses”, right through to “tracking and reporting against delivery of our five-year plan”....
...“If the NPG comes up with a novel and contentious way of saving it that is legally secure and the government supports, we want to see it.”...
...The sale from Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and Alberta Investment Management marks the second acquisition of a big proxy adviser in recent months....
...The FT’s financial literacy foundation is in the early stages of development but the momentum is picking up. We have a shadow board of trustees and a shadow advisory board....
...The spending plans would bring the ratio of public spending to gross domestic product from 40 per cent now to close to 46 per cent. That would put it above Germany and the Netherlands....
...If everything had gone to plan, Andy Street would now be rounding off an election campaign in which victory would cement his position as England’s pre-eminent Conservative outside Westminster....
...LumX’s biggest shareholder is Rozel Trustees, a Channel Islands-based trust whose beneficiaries are the Busson family, which owns more than 30 per cent, according to the annual report....
...A YouGov/Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board survey found that the 18-34 age group make up 54 per cent of vegans in the UK....
...Reality is, margins will be far worse without the savings both companies get from sharing purchasing and common platforms for vehicles. Trust between the two companies is at an all-time low....
...Its trustees included Alan Yentob, the former boss of the BBC, who, along with his co-trustees, appeared too in thrall to its charismatic founder, Camila Batmanghelidjh, to question its financial health....
...My trustees were very nervous and we had all sorts of contingency plans around it. But we did raise the £100m.”...
...At the end of Jindal’s second term, about half a dozen trustees were working at the governor’s mansion. Only one was pardoned. “It’s like, I trust you enough to watch my kids....
...The equity route Lazard Global Listed Infrastructure Equity and Legg Mason RARE infrastructure are two such funds, both with around a third of their investments in the US....
...Mr Truell estimates the merger will generate £75m of savings over the next five years....
...The IPB has recommended that both providers and IGCs come up with a plan to deliver better value for savers in legacy schemes by the end of the year....
...Contract-based schemes are run according to a contract between the individual and the provider, whereas trust-based schemes operate under specific laws and have trustees representing members’ interests....
...By law, trustees have a duty of care to all members, even those who are no longer employed by the plan sponsor, and members should insist that trustees take account of this, as well as the price and quality...
...I have a plan for an online business that I would run alongside my existing retail outlet. I think my idea could be very lucrative and I want to use businesses and other contacts as a sounding board....
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