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...In a statement on Tuesday, the $494bn pension fund said Stephen Gilmore, the former chief investment officer of the NZ$73bn (US$43.5bn) New Zealand Superannuation Fund, would become its new CIO in July,...
...More often, says Jeegar Kakkad of the Tony Blair Institute, incentives are just lacking. His think-tank has proposed making pension-fund tax advantages dependent on consolidation....
...Jonathan Booth, 64, from Hertfordshire, is one of around 17,000 customers of the Bristol-based Hartley Pensions who have been unable for 18 months to transfer their funds — totalling about £1.3bn — to other...
...BlackRock’s LifePath Paycheck, which rolls out in April, also combines target date funds with annuities, but the guaranteed payments can start sooner, allowing participants to keep the rest of their pension...
...They include proposals from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change to consolidate the UK’s defined benefit and local government pension schemes into £300bn-£400bn megafunds managed by the Pension Protection...
...Less than 5 per cent of investments are allocated to private markets, mostly in infrastructure and real estate, according to data from the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI)....
...Michael Tory, co-author of a report by the Tony Blair Institute which suggested wide-ranging reforms to the pensions market, welcomed reform of the lifeboat scheme....
...But that link is incredibly weak, and there’s no sense in which the National Insurance Fund is actually paying for the state pension and the NHS and other welfare benefits....
...funds to unlisted equities by 2030....
...He added that in April the government would go further by uprating benefits and pensions and extending its household support fund....
...Second, the government should introduce incentives to encourage investors, whether pension funds or foundations, to invest for growth in a way that is aligned with their charitable mission or members’ interests...
...“High inflation and higher interest rates disrupted equity and bond markets worldwide, piling the pressure on pension funds to adapt their strategies,” said WTW in its Global Top 300 Pension Funds report...
...“The number of new babies is sinking and sinking and we don’t know where it will stop . . . there will be a strain on our pension system,” warns Akiko Nomura, managing director at the Nomura Institute of...
...The fund’s proposal came after the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change said in May that an expansion of the lifeboat’s role could help unlock up to £100bn of pension cash for the economy....
...Pension funds are being targeted by both main UK political parties. Australian and Canadian pension funds invest three times as much of their portfolios into infrastructure than UK funds, Smith said....
...According to the OECD, 40.4 per cent of South Koreans over 65 already live in relative poverty, the highest rate in the developed world, while the country’s national pension fund is forecast to run out of...
...Part of the answer is consolidation of surviving defined benefit funds. A tested solution — the Pension Protection Fund — is already established and proven....
...Mutual funds got another boost in the 1980s, as big companies started shifting away from defined benefit pensions....
...Canadian pension funds and those in Europe and Australia began pouring money into infrastructure and US municipalities started to sell assets such as the Chicago Skyway Bridge, acquired by Macquarie and...
...The total bill for the extra pension contributions demanded by the regulator since 2004 came to £300bn, according to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change....
...Explain the ‘triple lock ’ According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, how much additional funding must be allocated to state pension payments each year?...
...worst- performing fund”....
...People on lower incomes often rely solely on the state pension to fund their retirement, but face having to wait longer to get it....
...The measures set out in a report from the Tony Blair Institute are aimed at reversing years of capital market decline through the creation of large pension funds, similar in scale to those in Canada and...
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