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...point would be to consolidate the 86 local government pension funds in England and Wales....
...There appears to be no circumstances where local authority pension benefits are reduced....
...“It makes no sense for UK savers that they can only gain these ingredients when their pension fund sponsor goes broke.”...
...In a move aimed at stimulating economic growth, Hunt confirmed plans to introduce a new requirement on “defined contribution” and local authority pension funds to disclose their allocations to UK and international...
...Before 2015, individuals with a defined contribution pension benefit usually had either to take a scheme pension at retirement or purchase an annuity....
...With thousands of private defined benefit schemes and tens of thousands of defined contribution ones, the market is highly fragmented....
...Meanwhile, people in company defined benefit pension (DB) schemes can also rest easier....
...Expanded role for pensions lifeboat The government is to consider proposals to pool defined benefit, or final salary, pension funds to harness the benefits of scale....
...In the UK, however, there are more than 5,000 defined benefit pension funds....
...Hunt will seek to merge some of the 80 or so local government pension funds....
...So I will introduce new requirements for DC and local government pension funds to disclose publicly their level of international and UK equity investments....
...The revelations follow the trustee of the PwC pension fund warning members of its defined benefit scheme late last month that dates of birth and retirement had been accessed during the Capita hack....
...Outside the public sector, defined-benefit pension schemes are now almost extinct and few in the UK are expecting a renaissance....
...As the discount rate lowers, the costs of “defined benefit” pension promises increase, typically resulting in higher pension bills for employers....
...Only a slim sliver of UK defined benefit pension money is still invested in UK stocks. Defined contributions and other alternative retirement savings should now start mounting up....
...By 2030, the majority of workplace DC savers will have their pension pots managed in schemes of over £30 billion and by 2040 all local government pension funds will be invested in pools of £200 billion or...
...Back then in the 1990s, if you had a pension in the UK, it tended to be what’s called a defined benefit pension....
...Under that agreement, nine UK managers of defined contribution (DC) pensions funds (about two-thirds of the DC market) will aim to put 5 per cent of their funds into unlisted equities — that is, those off...
...And we consider some of the possible solutions, including an overhaul of the UK’s Local Government Pension Schemes, the Canadian model espoused by “Maple Revolutionaries” like the Ontario Teachers’ Pension...
...The average Japanese household is not particularly engaged because they have no reason to be....
...To entities who are already tax-exempt, or can’t benefit from the tax-advantage, the feature is worthless. Think pension funds, mutual funds, central banks, many international investors....
...Defined-benefit pension schemes — which promise to pay employees’ pensions at a fixed level, sometimes based on their final salary — piled into long-term bonds in order to offset big swings in their liabilities...
...The ordeal fuelled public demands for stricter pension rules. Of course, no one incident could’ve been responsible for London’s current listings woes....
...The market for workplace pensions in the Netherlands accounts for almost 70 per cent of all eurozone pension fund assets, and the Dutch system shares many similarities with the UK, including large defined-benefit...
...UK defined-benefit pension funds, where pensions are related to final or career average pay, have a near-uniform commitment to liability matching....
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