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...“Investment grade sterling credit is arguably the most desirable liquid investment for a pension scheme,” said Simeon Willis, chief investment officer at XPS Pensions Group, owing to its “additional return...
...“As a concept, credit-backed gilt repo is really exactly the same as having credit-backed swaps,” said Simeon Willis, chief investment officer at consultancy XPS Pensions....
...Elliott and guitarist Phil Collen are promoting a book that, to Elliott, proves their status....
...Blame Punxsatawney Phil. Or, when it comes to the icy cold that has descended (again) over US-China relations, rogue weather balloons....
...Nearly 40 per cent of US workers earning over $100,000, surveyed by consulting firm Willis Towers Watson, are living pay cheque to pay cheque. This is twice as many as the number in 2019....
...Smart reads The GRAT game Nike founder Phil Knight passed a fortune on to his family while avoiding billions in tax, and he’s not alone....
...Spreadsheet Phil aims to atone for that....
...Phil Tindall, head of smart beta at Willis Towers Watson, the consultancy, said: “There are a number of factors that are well tested and well understood, but there are not hundreds of good ones.”...
...Phil Tindall, senior investment consultant at Towers Watson, says: “The best types of strategies are those that are more transparent, straightforward and easy to understand – and which avoid proprietary...
...Cairn’s $1.2bn drilling campaign in Greenland continues to overhang the group’s exploration portfolio, locking the valuation to its cash pile and minority stake in Cairn India, said Deutsche Bank analyst Phil...
...Lord Willis says that the government must make sure “international students are not put off studying here”....
...Phil Page, client manager at Cardano, says: “If you include the use of liability hedging derivatives and bonds within fixed income then many large UK pension funds are now as advanced as their European counterparts...
...“If pension funds want to move to an indirect structure, then a Reit [will be] perfect,” said Phil Nicklin, real estate tax partner at Deloitte, who also foresaw life companies following suit and some offshore...
High fees and poor returns bode ill for private equity funds of funds
...Among the Liberal Democrat nominations are Ken McDonald, former director of public prosecutions, and Floella Benjamin, an actress and television personality, as well as former MPs Matthew Taylor, Phil Willis...
...Highlights include Phil Willis, the Liberal Democrat, fixing an estate agent’s Christmas lunch (his daughter Rachel works there); Nick Brown, Labour chief whip, hosting a reception for the Mariinsky Opera...
...Willis: former MP for Harrogate Kathryn Parminter, former ceo of Campaign to Protect Rural England John Shipley, Newcastle councillor DUP Ian Paisley (pictured): former head of the Democratic Unionist...
...Phil Willis MP, chairman of the committee, said: “It sets an unfortunate precedent for the Department of Health to consider that the existence of a community which believes that homeopathy works is ‘evidence...
...Asked whether this meant college building could fall victim to the same mistakes, Phil Willis, the committee’s Liberal Democrat chairman, said: “We’re saying that, we’re saying that very clearly.”...
...Phil Willis, the committee chairman, said whichever party took power after next year’s election “would have a terrific opportunity to put science permanently into the Cabinet Office”....
...Phil Willis, the Liberal Democrat chairman of the Commons committee that scrutinises the now defunct innovation department, claimed science was the “real casualty” of an “ill-thought out” reshuffle....
...Phil Willis, chairman of the Commons science committee, said the use of science in farming had helped feed billions of people....
...She was replaced by Phil Rogers, the finance director, who raised the additional £60m to provide working capital on top of a new debt facility....
...The draft bill will now go for pre-legislative scrutiny to a joint committee of both Houses of Parliament, chaired by Phil Willis, the Liberal Democrat MP who heads the Commons science committee....
...“The committee is quite clear that it wishes to see a greater role for the regulator within a broad permissive framework set out by parliament,” said Phil Willis, the Liberal Democrat MP who chaired the...
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