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...A bank’s effective liquid assets must exceed its runnable liabilities. In effect, the central bank would be a pawnbroker for all seasons (PFAS)....
...Local investors could well pile in, given a new US-style pension policy to encourage equity investment. But that will need time to come to fruition....
...S&P ranks BP’s long-term credit as A minus compared with Shell’s A plus, raising the cost of financing for the company....
...Canada’s main stock index, the S&P/TSX Composite, has advanced 31 per cent since 2019, compared with a 74 per cent gain for the S&P 500....
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...A spokeswoman for S&P said in a statement: “Inclusive Development International’s report is misleading and inaccurate.”...
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...S&P already holds a negative outlook on the country....
...Fink said big pension funds that have large allocations to private equity have been particularly reluctant to invest because those funds have been slow to return money to investors amid a slowdown in takeovers...
...Eighty-six per cent of S&P 500 companies already report through CDP, and 94 per cent of the UK’s FTSE 100....
...Sir John Armitt, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, has hit out at a drive to push pension schemes to invest more in Britain, saying there is “no reason” funds should have a home bias....
...Between 2009 and 2023, cumulative S&P 500 gains were five times those of the Euro Stoxx 50, a eurozone blue-chip index, in local currency terms....
...But for his long-term focus, with lots of pension fund clients, it does not nag loudly enough to demand action. “It’s hard to have a strong view right now,” he said....
...These have performed poorly, relative to other indices like the S&P 500, since interest rate rises began in December 2021....
...Over the past decade the total return on the S&P 500 of more than 200 per cent is three times higher than the UK market....
...Tesla fell 1.8 per cent following reports that a group of Nordic pension funds will formally ask the company to respect collective bargaining for its employees in the region, as the electric car maker ’s...
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