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...“Government needs to recognise this as an international, globally competitive market,” he told attendees at the Trades Union Congress pension conference in London this week....
...A proposed shake-up of the UK’s pension market to give millions of workers the right to choose a retirement “pot for life” risks leaving savers worse off, industry leaders and unions have warned....
...Mark Swindell, chief executive of rosco Rock Rail, said the industry had brought billions of pounds of pension fund and other institutional investors’ money into the railway industry....
...and hedge funds....
...The industry body said that around 40 per cent of daily foreign exchange deals would be shut out of the main platform for reconciling currency trades when the US moves from two-day to one-day settlement...
...The Trades Union Congress, the umbrella body for the UK’s trade union movement, said: “The lack of measures in the Mansion House proposals to ensure that extra money allocated to ‘productive finance’ was...
...The investment boom carried on even after a trade war broke out between Beijing and Washington....
...provide a very effective private sector solution,” said the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, the trade body which represents workplace pension funds....
...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....
...A group of trade unions is mounting a serious proxy fight that could put a trio of directors on Starbucks’ board to be a voice for its rank and file....
...The move to shift clearing away from London had been resisted by banks, asset managers, pension funds and brokers across Europe, who argued that it would raise their costs....
...The Commons’ business and trade committee has written to Wilko’s former chief executive and chair, and representatives at accountancy firm EY, to ask about the shortfall in Wilko’s pension fund and dividend...
...“Thames Water investors are essentially blackmailing customers and Ofwat,” said a spokesman for GMB, an influential trade union....
...and traffic congestion: Luxembourg tackles congestion Economic growth and development: IMF funds Ecuador Demand and supply, externalities: university applications rise Trade: China’s economy slows Market...
...But the signatories, which include the European Fund and Asset Management Association, Federation of the Dutch Pension funds, Finance Denmark, as well as derivatives groups FIA and Isda, said the plans “...
...Unions are urging the party’s leadership to scrap rises in the state pension age, saying they could push retirement out of reach for today’s young....
...And finally The works of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint and Dutch painter Piet Mondrian are juxtaposed in a new exhibition at Tate Modern....
...Given the vagueness of the legislation, much will depend on how the FCA enforces it. Its first interventions will set the tone for SJP and the whole industry....
...And there is little room for manoeuvre in Brazil’s federal budget, since some 90 per cent of it is earmarked for non-discretionary items like social security and pensions....
...Fund managers and pension funds paid for access to the reports indirectly, by sending their stock and bond trades to the provider and paying extra-large commissions....
...Aims to impose disclosure of sustainability risk on financial institutions, pension funds and insurance companies. Includes all sustainability risk, not only climate but also social and governance....
...This is partly a response to the demands of their limited partners — the hedge funds, pension funds and other institutional investors on which they rely for funding....
...Australia’s biggest pension fund is going digital and PwC is turning down millions of dollars in business....
...Yasutoshi Nishimura, Japan’s minister of economy, trade and industry, said the trade deal was likely to lead to an agreement for the same metals processed in Japan to be eligible for tax incentives under...
...Some of them are university pension funds. So they’re not all, you know, rapacious City slickers. Lucy Fisher And George, this is becoming a big electoral issue, isn’t it?...
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