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...Remember, while stocks trade on a sprawling ecosystem of electronic exchanges with everyone able to buy and sell to each other — whether retail brokerages, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, pension plans...
...Athene’s lawyers have insisted that Central Laborers ask to have their lawsuit put on hold, although in a letter to New York judge Peter Sherwood, the pension fund sought to resist that demand....
...(FT) Juiced returns Calpers is moving deeper into private equity and private debt, seeking an ambitious 7 per cent return rate for the $395bn public sector pension fund, the largest in the US....
...Apollo first came into conflict with an Athene shareholder in June, when the Illinois-based Central Laborers Pension Fund complained in a New York lawsuit that the private equity firm was using its outsize...
...A lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court last week by the Central Laborers’ Pension Fund, which owns shares in the life insurer, aims to force Apollo to return the profits it has earned from this...
...Savers (both retail and institutional) expect liquidity, on tap, partly fuelled by pensions freedoms and partly by the impact of Woodford collapse/ Property Fund shuttering....
...Most countries in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe introduced their funded private pension systems in the 1990s and 2000s....
...• The Paris Opera has issued a mandate for a supplementary pension fund manager that will also provide disability benefits and a health plan....
...The pensions issue has threatened to derail Greece’s bailout programme, with the International Monetary Fund — one of the “troika” of bailout monitors along with the European Commission and European Central...
...Japan’s pension funds — most notably the Government Pension Investment Fund — have been selling bonds, but the funds only hold Y90tn and are already underweight JGBs....
...The market has shrugged off looser monetary policies, an easing of rules governing margin debt, the use of real estate as collateral, and an announcement that state pension funds will be allowed to buy up...
...Sensing the threat, scores of worried pensioners protested outside the central offices of IKA, the main state pension fund, in April after their monthly payment was delayed by 24 hours....
...That is why education reform has been so central to our mission. Today we take these further steps....
...Not knowing the dynamics of links between Triparty/bilateral markets, or demand for money by hedge funds or, demand for collateral by pension/insurers, may lead to wedges that many not be easy to remove....
...Fewer than 4% of pension savers currently approaching retirement will be affected....
...Today, we also abolish stamp duty for shares purchased in exchange traded funds to encourage those funds to locate in the UK....
...The GPIF was established in April 2001 to manage funds in Japan’s public pension system....
...The lure of higher returns has attracted big investors such as pension funds and insurers and led to the creation of new types of funds to replicate fixed-income assets....
...These numbers all exclude the transfer of the Royal Mail pension fund to the government, which reduces the deficit still further for this year alone....
...An additional Y2.8tn of new government funds will go towards the government’s contribution to the national pension scheme, bringing the total of the supplementary budget that will fund the stimulus programme...
...allegedly matches one sent in 2010 by Christine Lagarde, then French finance minister, to her Greek counterpart George Papaconstantinou for investigation of possible tax evasion by Greeks who transferred the funds...
...Nothing is more important to the coalition than its central mission to rectify Britain’s public finances....
...Investment Fund (GPIF), the world’s biggest institutional investor, has confirmed a shift into emerging market equities, as it seeks higher returns amid rising payouts and persistently low bond yields,...
...But the OBR assess in their central forecast that we do not meet the supplementary objective that aims to have debt falling by 2015-16....
...Barclays competes with BlackRock for $9.3bn of Mexican pension funds Barclays, BlackRock and Deutsche Bank are vying to tap as much as $9.3bn in Mexican regulated pension assets that are poised to invest...
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