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...“The indicative valuation results show a major improvement in the [USS] funding position,” said Dame Kate Barker, chair of the USS board of trustees....
...Dame Kate Barker, chair of the USS trustee board, said the scheme’s latest annual review demonstrated that USS was a “very well-run pension scheme”, outperforming its targets and benchmarks across investments...
...Additional reporting by Kate Beioley, Katie Martin, Caroline Binham, Owen Walker, Tommy Stubbington, Joshua Oliver, Jonathan Eley, Alex Barker and Laura Noonan Letter in response to this article: Questions...
Battle for struggling UK convenience chain prompts Asda owner to pledge pension funding
...Roger Barker, director of policy at the Institute of Directors, also said there was a lack of detail on how the government will achieve its aims....
...“Trends in financial markets have made the valuable pension promise offered by USS . . . much more expensive today than in the past,” Barker added....
Concern for 10,000 members of retirement fund, which has estimated £350m deficit
...“The appointment of a body to monitor the advice provided by an IFA is an unprecedented step in the corporate world,” said Francois Barker, partner and head of pensions with Eversheds Sutherland, a legal...
...The peer had struggled with grief since the death of his wife, the novelist Josephine Hart, a decade ago....
...‘Their house is on fire’: the pension crisis sweeping the world — Josephine Cumbo and Robin Wigglesworth The plunge in interest rates since the financial crisis is wreaking havoc on pension funds....
...Francois Barker, partner at law firm Eversheds Sutherland, who collaborated on the new statement, said the law did not require a figure on charges and few schemes or providers could offer one....
...Additional reporting by Andy Bounds and Josephine Cumbo...
...“The short answer is that the £4,000 MPAA is not in force and won’t be until it is enacted in the finance bill in a future parliament,” said Francois Barker, head of pensions and partner with Eversheds Sutherland...
...Mr Barker said that if more employers followed suit, it would have the “unfortunate consequence” of £10,000 a year “in practice [becoming] the annual allowance for the many and not just the few”....
...With annuity rates near historic lows, Greg Barker, the energy minister, suggested that those planning for retirement should think about putting some money into solar panels instead of into their pension...
...“Our study suggests that the number of people leaving their pension scheme, after being automatically enrolled, is higher than the DWP’s opt-out statistics,” said Francois Barker, partner and head of pensions...
...Garfield quotes at length, letting the reader trace the initial ardour and ultimate disappointment of Napoleon’s correspondence and romance with Josephine, for instance....
...have to remain independent to ensure that homeowners only take out an equity release product once they have carefully considered the pros and cons of going ahead from an unbiased third party,” says Claire Barker...
...Remembering childhood confectionery brands such as Callard & Bowser, Barker & Dobson and Charbonnel & Walker, they decided an ampersand would give it class....
...Claire Barker, partner with Rickerbys solicitors, says it is rarely sensible to own the property as anything other than tenants in common, such as joint tenants....
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