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New ‘exploratory scenario’ comes as concerns mount about risk posed by offshore arrangement to UK savers
Trustees are worried about growing involvement of overseas reinsurance firms in corporate pension deals
Chancellor’s move is part of range of measures aimed at channelling retirement fund investment to boost economic growth
UK regulators urge outsourcer’s customers, including insurers and pension funds, to examine data loss
Outsourcer tells trustees its investigation could be finalised by end of next week
Call to release more funding amid growing fears over UK stock market’s competitiveness
Proposals come after recent period of rising interest left majority of defined benefit plans in the black
...Phil Smith, head of Emea LDI research at BlackRock, said: “This is about broadening out the pool of assets that can be used as collateral, increasing that resilience and trying to avoid losses from having...
...Phil Smith, head of Emea LDI research at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, said demand should remain robust, with sterling-denominated corporate bonds tending to make up “the majority” of these...
Higher interest rates continue to fuel surge in dealmaking, according to new forecast
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With prices plunging and yields at decade highs, these are the parts of the financial system that could come under strain
...Charles Smith, chair of Shoe Zone, the Aim-listed high street retailer, which has 1,500 employees, called for changes to the rules that limit the flexibility the PPF has to vary the levy every year....
Soaring interest rates have facilitated a big rise in ‘bulk annuity’ transactions, but the impact of transferring tens of billions of pounds of assets to a handful of insurers could be profound
Colchester Council said files including benefits data were found on an unsecured Amazon Data Bucket controlled by the outsourcer
UK employers’ group to suspend operations until June as members exit en masse
UK’s biggest private sector pension plan says private details of members were on outsourcer’s hacked servers
Senior regulator urges ‘moderation’ as new data underlines potential market growth
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...Additional reporting by Josephine Cumbo, Philip Georgiadis, Jane Croft, Robert Wright and Bethan Staton...
...A third archetype, of the hypersexual Jezebel, is embodied by Josephine Baker in jazz-age Paris....
...Additional reporting by Ian Smith, Josephine Cumbo and Bethan Staton...
...Additional reporting by Arash Massoudi, Josephine Cumbo and Robert Smith in London Letter in response to this article: Thames Water should not drain taxpayers’ money / From Roger Salmon, Cambridge, UK...
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