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...How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn (Bloomsbury) A revelatory account of how the ancient world was much wider and more interconnected than traditionally thought — and the...
...However, Jonathan Camfield, partner at Lane Clark & Peacock, which advised on LDI, told the committee he supported “new constraints” on the use of leverage by pension schemes....
...“Some schemes face hard decisions,” said Steve Hodder, partner with actuarial consultants Lane Clark & Peacock, as LDI strategies had become “less effective”....
...Dancing at Lughnasa National Theatre (olivier), London The National Theatre’s beautiful new staging of Dancing at Lughnasa opens with a literal trip down memory lane....
...Additional reporting by Josephine Cumbo...
...Earlier this year, Lane Clark & Peacock, the actuarial consultants, said the proposals could force hundreds of companies to inject an extra £5bn a year into their pension schemes, diverting cash from dividends...
...Analysis by Lane Clark & Peacock, the pension consultants, suggested a stricter approach by the regulator, such as requiring deficits to be cleared in seven years, could lead to employers being asked to...
...Music recurs: the book’s title comes from Josephine Baker’s self-description as “a little devil in America”....
...“When the top of government issues a message which contradicts what its own regulator is saying, this is not a reassuring start,” said Myles Pink, partner at consultants Lane Clark & Peacock, the actuarial...
...Steve Webb, a former pensions minister and now a partner with actuarial firm Lane, Clark & Peacock, welcomed proposals to simplify charging structures but said the government needed to “tread very carefully...
...Sir Steve Webb, former pensions minister and now partner with Lane, Clark & Peacock, an actuarial firm, says this death benefit perk could be reversed....
...Webb, a partner with Lane, Clark & Peacock, has calculated that the bill to fully backdate payments to women who were entitled to an uplift prior to 2008 could reach £650m....
...“This is clearly a ludicrous situation,” said Bob Scott, partner with Lane Clark & Peacock, the actuarial consultants....
...“This figure [£2.7bn] is truly mind-numbing,” said Webb, now partner with Lane, Clark & Peacock, an actuarial consultancy....
...“Trustees of smaller schemes may think that today’s announcement doesn’t matter to them, but they would be mistaken,” said Claire Jones, head of responsible investment at Lane, Clark & Peacock, the actuarial...
...Steve Webb, a partner with actuarial firm Lane Clark & Peacock and a former pensions minister, also welcomed the government’s change of position....
...“The act will introduce two new criminal offences which could potentially apply to a wide range of activity — both directly and indirectly related to a pension scheme,” said Laura Amin, principal with Lane...
...executives received pension contributions of 25 per cent of pay last year, compared with an average of about 6 per cent for employees, according to a report published on Tuesday by actuarial consultants Lane...
...I like the old-school stuff, like Joséphine Chez Dumonet, a typical French bistro that tourists don’t flock to, where I love the kidneys and the soufflé....
...Steve Webb, partner with Lane, Clark & Peacock, a firm of actuarial consultants, said it seemed “very likely” that the numbers of employers skipping pension payments would increase “as firms faced severe...
...Steve Webb, a former pensions minister and now partner with Lane, Clark and Peacock, an actuarial firm, said the ruling could have a wider effect, including on the levy on business that is used to fund the...
...For more mature schemes, an insurer-led buyout is likely to be more appropriate, says Gordon Watchorn, partner at Lane, Clarke & Peacock, the actuarial consultants....
...government that the Insolvency Bill could have put pension schemes at the back of the queue when a company was in financial difficulty,” said Sir Steve Webb, former pensions minister and now partner with Lane...
...Sir Steve Webb, former pensions minister and partner with actuarial firm Lane Clark & Peacock, will take also part in the hour-long session....
...“It was a document written in a different era,” said Sir Steve, now partner with Lane, Clark & Peacock, a firm of actuarial consultants....
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