Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Employers’ access to billions of pounds of surpluses in UK company pension funds would be eased under proposals set out by the government on Friday....
...Others to back the campaign include the central finance board of the Methodist Church and the Pension Protection Fund....
...She largely backs Hunt on welfare changes to boost the workforce and on unlocking pension fund investment in UK business and infrastructure....
...For the PE shop, the crucial thing is that an insurance subsidiary gives them direct access to retail investors’ capital, which normally they are only allowed to access indirectly, through big pension funds...
...Pension funds have been big buyers of gilts and index-linked gilts to back their pension promises, but insurers have different priorities and operate under different rules....
...In the meantime, the UK government bond market went into meltdown in 2022, as pension funds’ liability-driven investment strategies struggled to cope with a sudden rise in yields....
...But it is hard to know what even a cohort of Eisenhowers and Adenauers would do when boxed in on all sides by public opinion on the central question of government: how to fund it....
...The plans also highlight “social support for the most vulnerable” — a sign that the Kremlin intends to boost spending on pensions and welfare ahead of next March’s presidential election, where Putin, who...
...But spending on healthcare and pensions will continue to increase sharply....
...Welfare I begin with welfare, and I start by thanking the outstanding Work and Pensions Secretary for his help in developing these reforms....
...Liqian Ren, who manages China investments at US fund WisdomTree Asset Management, said Beijing believed expanding central government stimulus to the scale seen in the US in response to the 2008 financial...
...The administration intends to fund extra spending with increased revenue collection....
...I think the thing that we can do is we can sit down with institutional clients and with sovereign wealth, same with pension funds and annuities....
...The central bank acted to stop gilt markets from spiralling out of control by suspending its programme to sell gilts — which could drive up yields further — and pledging to buy long-dated bonds....
...If passed, the changes would enable the veteran leftwinger to allocate extra funds for infrastructure and welfare benefits, critical planks of the president’s pledge to end hunger in the nation of 208mn....
...Asset managers Amundi and LGIM, as well as Hesta, one of Australia’s largest pension funds, are behind the proposal. There is a strong business case for tackling antibiotic and antiviral resistance....
...If they do, and they have a low-cost fund manager, and they know they will die at average life expectancy, they will have an income in retirement much higher than the annuity....
...She also welcomed a £100mn fund to help charities and community groups meet rising costs....
...Groups such as Apollo, Blackstone, Ares, KKR and Blue Owl increasingly concede that their traditional offerings for pensions and sovereign wealth funds will not be enough to reach their aspirations to manage...
...benefits and pensions in line with inflation....
...Back then, pension funds were minimally regulated and not required to reveal their finances....
...welfare....
...US-based private capital group Apollo Global’s Athene annuities business purchased $1.1bn in highly rated collateralised loan obligation funds sold by UK pension funds during a weeklong liquidity crisis...
...Lula has called for a greater role for BNDES, the publicly controlled development bank, for state-run Petrobras to stop charging international prices for fuel, and for a rise in the minimum wage and pension...
...Insurance companies and pension funds can use these bonds to hedge their annuity and pension liabilities. Their tax treatment is the same as for other government bonds....
International Edition