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...and science initiative will enable providers to set up funds that are open to pension fund capital....
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...Gilmore starts at the largest US public pension plan in July, ending a seven-month vacancy in the top position at the $494bn pension fund....
...But he added that it would not be right for pension funds to simply invest in home markets due to ministerial pressure....
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...Older investors also gained exposure to technology through the Liontrust Global Technology fund and Polar Capital Technology Trust....
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...Jonathan Booth, 64, from Hertfordshire, is one of around 17,000 customers of the Bristol-based Hartley Pensions who have been unable for 18 months to transfer their funds — totalling about £1.3bn — to other...
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...PEPs allowed investments in authorised unit trusts and investment trusts if at least 75 per cent of the value of the investments held by the fund were invested in eligible UK companies....
...investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and central banks....
...Thirty-six “master trusts”, the largest workplace DC pension schemes, held three-quarters of the DC pension sector’s £143bn total assets, or £105bn, as of June, according to The Pensions Regulator....
...Yet in the fourth quarter of 1974, fearful insurance companies, pension funds, investment trusts and unit trusts together sold more shares than they bought for the first and last time during the decade....
...Her main investment is in an innovative finance Isa with Triodos, through which she funds Thera Trust. This creates homes designed for the needs of people with learning disabilities....
...“It has been an honour to lead and guide this massive global investment trust fund for the teachers of California,” said Ailman....
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...Mutual funds got another boost in the 1980s, as big companies started shifting away from defined benefit pensions....
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