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...One said the risk of data loss remained an “open question”. “There is no evidence currently to suggest that any of our customers’ data was accessed....
...“Frankly, there’s no reason why any of the pension funds here should say ‘oh, I’ve got to invest in the UK’....
...Weingarten: There are times as an AFT trustee, when you’re sitting on the board of a pension fund and you see $4bn in front of you and you have to make an investment decision. Wow....
...Whatever the answer, there is no doubt that the so-called Qatargate scandal has rocked the European Union and forced it to confront uncomfortable truths about how it manages lobbying by foreign powers....
...The Teamsters union general president is James P Hoffa, the son of Jimmy Hoffa, a notorious president of the Teamsters and founder of the Central States fund....
...The desire for an “investment big bang” is also coming with looser caps on fees paid by defined contribution pension schemes, and a push for local government pension funds to set aside money to go into local...
...A spokesman for Prigozhin, who was this year named as chairman of the board of trustees at Patriot, said that he “does not run or comment on FAN’s editorial activity”....
...The Conservative peer is a former PR guru who was the president of his local Witney constituency and thus responsible for first getting Cameron into the House of Commons....
...Similar letters are also expected to be sent to thousands of retired private sector workers as their workplace retirement funds uncover errors dating back four decades....
...The 400,000 savers and members of the Central States Pension Fund, set up in 1955 to provide for truckers in their retirement, received a letter in May from their board of directors and trustees with an...
...Banks and data providers say it is mainly infrequent traders, local pension funds and corporate issuers who do not have an LEI. Normally it takes three to five days to apply for an LEI....
...I met her at the Edinburgh Leith office of the GMB trade union. She is not at the vanguard or the rear; she is Momentum’s march through the institutions....
...The union said it would be making no recommendation to its members on the package....
...Houlding is the son of a joiner from Cumbria’s Eden Valley, who left the local school at 16 to chase his dream of becoming a professional climber....
...This is because of local rules requiring some European pension funds to ensure their assets are run by EU asset managers or simply because of a preference for such an arrangement....
...UK life insurers and pension funds, which today manage nearly £3tn of assets, have been investing in the real economy for centuries....
...The company is understood to be meeting unions this week to discuss pensions. Mr Javid, who is now secretary of state for communities and local government, declined to comment....
...Pensions potential Historically, low annuity rates make it financially impossible for many over-50s to retire early....
...Four unions that had opposed the plan — AFSCME Council 31, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Illinois Nurses Association and Teamsters Local 700 — welcomed the ruling....
...Rules that came into effect last year gave investors the freedom to spend as much or as little of their defined contribution pension funds as they wished, with no requirement to buy an annuity....
...Having chaired a pension fund I found those without professional expertise unable to contribute significantly but those trustees may possibly have given some comfort to scheme members....
...No, it should not make any difference to customers or premiums in most cases, although analysts say prices in individual and bulk annuities could rise....
...She is very critical of those who see no value in her no-nonsense approach....
...But it has also come up against fierce union resistance....
...For industrial action to go ahead, 40 per cent of those entitled to vote must back it. Union members must “opt in” to political funds....
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