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...Since the automatic enrolment policy was introduced in 2012, more than 10mn savers have been brought into workplace pensions, many now in mega funds, also known as master trusts....
...In the past decade it has served investors very well, including many UK retail savers who have steadily switched funds out of the dejected London market for America....
...“It’s made it more attractive to normal people and less attractive to the mega-wealthy,” he added....
...Investor eagerness to allocate more money to the hedge fund industry’s costly mega-managers has driven up average fees for the first time in a decade....
...It is also the assurance that small savers and investors can readily access the assets in their accounts....
...Masayoshi Son: who needs a $66bn mega-deal? When life sends you on a wild-goose chase, try to find some golden eggs....
...This will ensure savers do not miss out but this will also help the UK build back better.”...
...Paris mega-trial Nearly six years after the terrorist attacks labelled as France’s own 9/11, the largest terrorism trial in the country’s history is starting today, writes Leila Abboud in Paris....
...The party gets a grip The abrupt cancellation in November last year of the mega IPO of Ant Financial, an arm of Alibaba, and the orchestrated deposition of its celebrity founder, Jack Ma, heralded the start...
...In the fiat world, the scenario has translated into a stealth wealth transfer from savers to the indebted via negative interest rates....
...It is only by looking at investment over the long term — reflecting the commitment of savers’ contributions today to fund their retirements tomorrow — that the true performance becomes clear....
...“In Germany that has tended only to be OK for large, mega-corporate depositors. For ordinary retail customers and savers, it is simply politically impossible.”...
...Back in November, when the senator from Massachusetts was running as a presidential candidate, she pushed for a ban on “mega mergers”....
...“We’re all in it together,” bankers told clients — but rumours swirled that the politically connected mega-rich had already got their money out, even as customers could withdraw only $200 per week in cash...
...His intervention helped scupper the €35bn mega-deal. A year later, he received a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list for services to the economy....
...Most asset managers, apart from mega-players like BlackRock, Vanguard and Fidelity, can’t begin to contemplate building their own solution, given the costs and uncertain prospects,” he says....
...The country is back to being an excess saver.” And that is because of an underlying failure of Abenomics, which was aimed at jolting Japan out of its decades-long malaise....
...There are some voices who have been warning about mega, hyper, collapse-of-western civilisation scale inflation for decades (or more)....
...We want to stand up to the regulators who lump us in with the mega banks, help change behaviour, and encourage competition and choice for savers....
...The chancellor used his 2014 budget to abolish penal taxes on savers taking money out of their pensions, forcing them to buy annuities instead....
...Pension provider Hargreaves Lansdown has put together an action plan for retirement savers in drawdown plans....
...However, others pension experts said price controls may be less of an issue for mega-sized collective funds, which can use their numbers to drive benefits for members....
...Mr Woodford is also fiercely opposed to mega-acquisitions, arguing they do not offer long-term shareholder value....
...These are schemes where pension savings, which are normally held in individual accounts are pooled together to create a mega-fund....
...Meanwhile, Japanese savers reliably bought JGBs....
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