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...Moscow has said it plans to formally annex the area through a referendum, as it did after invading Crimea in 2014, and Kherson’s streets are plastered with posters declaring “Kherson is a Russian city”....
...The UK’s Pension Protection Fund is expected to lodge a claim of £305m with Johnston Press’s administrators amid concern that its pension scheme was not treated appropriately....
...The priority now for the Government and administrators is making sure kids in schools still get fed to day – and our members still have jobs and pensions....
...As a result, some firms have decided to withdraw or closes offices. The list includes Cadwalader and Fried Frank. Meanwhile, others have tried to form joint ventures with local players....
...The 2015 and 2017 general elections brought 103 new Tory MPs into the House of Commons, making up a third of the parliamentary party....
...On average US pension plans are assuming 7.6 per cent rates of return, according to the National Association of State Retirement Administrators....
...The Public Investment Corporation, South Africa’s state-owned pension fund manager and its most powerful investor, has agreed to act as an anchor by buying up to 10 per cent of the shares being sold by Barclays...
...The official site is at www.gov.uk/find-lost-pension, and it has access to the Department for Work and Pensions’ database of 200,000 scheme administrators....
...Microsoft plans to announce a major new round of layoffs as early as today, according to the New York Times....
...John Ralfe, an independent pensions consultant, believes the shift will save LGPS trustees “time and effort, as well as money”, freeing them up to consider more important issues such as negotiating deficit...
...District Court in the Southern District of New York late Monday, was from a group of investors across the U.S. and Caribbean, including city and state pension plans.”...
...“The pension crisis is not truly solved until relief is brought to Chicago and all of the other local governments across our state that are standing on the brink of a fiscal cliff because of our pension...
...With the government giving itself room for a U-turn over its plan for local variation in public sector pay, every bit of evidence will be closely scrutinised....
...State and local governments are a large employer in the US, claiming 19.2m workers in September 2011, or nearly 15 per cent of the labour force, and covering nearly all of them in DB pension plans....
...The second – a fund administrator from Buckinghamshire – also scored with Fenner, as well as achieving 40-fold success with ASOS....
...“In the past, we have gone in and out of markets and perhaps not had a clear long-term plan for development of them,” says Steven Beevers, head of financial services at the department....
...most plans made their last reports as of June 2008, before the worst of the market falls....
...As the following articles show, that day has come - almost - to pass. John Thornhill is the FT’s European editor....
...I plan to retire early around the end of April 2006 at 52 years of age and have a pension fund of £400,000 in round figures....
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