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...The government said it would consider taking further action against pension funds that did not raise their allocations to the UK....
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...He has another national pension from his 15 years in the European parliament. “Of course I am not destitute but it is income I was promised,” he said....
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...The damage was particularly acute in LDI pooled funds, which are managed for mainly smaller pension funds....
...That the US pension system is a complicated failure (“Move to solve ‘Rubik’s Cube’ of US pensions”, Report, April 1) is beyond dispute....
...The finance ministry forecasts the size of the fund to reach €200bn by the mid-2030s and returns on investments will enable distributions of €10bn a year to the statutory pension fund from 2036....
...The report said government spending on the state pension, pension credit and winter fuel payment was expected to be £132bn in 2023-24, or 5.1 per cent of national income....
...The extent of losses to pension funds in 2022, which equated to a near quarter drop in asset value over the year, was disclosed in a long-awaited report by the Pensions Regulator this week....
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