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...Just $830mn of domestic institutional and banking capital in Africa is invested in climate solutions and clean energy, a fraction of the $1.4tn assets managed by local institutions including pension funds...
...and then incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1944....
...In his Budget, Hunt confirmed new measures that require local authority pension funds and private sector retirement plans to disclose their UK investments....
...Union Square Advisors, a tech-focused investment bank, has appointed Michael Meyer to the newly created role of chief executive. He will also continue to be head of capital markets....
...The Dutch pension fund PFZW yesterday said it had sold €2.8bn of its holdings in oil groups including Shell, BP and TotalEnergies because they were not doing enough to produce credible plans for the clean...
...The UK Treasury has come under fire for a lack of progress on post-Brexit financial reforms and for exaggerating the effects of its plan to reinvigorate the City....
...Portugal plans to ditch a controversial tax break for foreigners that helped attract a wave of wealthy arrivals to the country but stoked a housing crisis by driving up property prices.Prime Minister António...
...“We need to improve what didn’t go right before,” says Abinadade Santos, general secretary of the metalworkers’ union in Recife....
...Defined benefit — where employers guarantee an inflation-linked pension for life — has been replaced with defined contribution — a glorified savings plan, with no guarantees....
...Roughly half of global gig workers now belong to a formal group or union, or have taken part in industrial action, a 2021 survey of nearly 5,000 workers found....
...She gets to be the woman who delivers for the trade union movement what they want....
...Of course, the chancellor confirmed the pensions triple lock will remain over the weekend....
...Laurent Berger, the leader of the moderate CFDT union, called the decision to ram through the bill a “democratic iniquity”, and the coalition of eight unions has vowed to continue the fight even if the pensions...
...Laurent Berger, the leader of the moderate CFDT union, urged the government on Friday to “hit pause” on its plans, saying the spiralling violence on the fringes of demonstrations was worrying....
...But they have given me no reason to.”In the city of Valencia’s central food market, Natalia Estellés Palanca, who owns a butchers stall, said she could not remember a tougher time given the brutal mix of...
...Here’s a sentence that you can safely use if you can’t think of anything profound to say about British politics: Keir Starmer is no Tony Blair....
...I mean, what we saw at the Mansion House speech was a chancellor who’s got no money of his own to spend. So he’s looking for someone else’s money to spend. Miranda GreenThe pensions....
...Further details of specific walkouts below. In France, the unions are overseeing further protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms....
...The Fire Brigades Union on Thursday postponed plans to announce dates for its first nationwide strike over pay in 20 years after local government representatives made an improved offer in last-ditch talks...
...It does not have a singular board, and operates no unified chain of command. Instead, the EY network comprises locally owned firms that pay a fee to headquarters to share the global brand....
...on from months of protests over pension reforms....
...Stephen Bush There’s also . . . presumably there are equal pay problems like this bubbling under both in other councils and also in local government pension schemes, right?...
...My daughter’s friend there plans to participate till Saturday: “Then I’ll take my weekend.” This is no way to run a country....
...As well as junior doctors and Amazon staff, over 70,000 members of the Universities and College Union begin three days of industrial action over pay, pensions and working conditions....
...He better tell us what his plan is....
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