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...The tax cuts will be worth an average of £350 for a self-employed person earning £28,200 a year. There were also cuts in NICs for employees....
...Since the National Living Wage has been introduced, the proportion of people on low pay, defined as earning less than two thirds of national median hourly income, has halved....
...Jon Williams, Viridi’s chief executive and a Buffalo native, pays his employees $18 an hour, with healthcare, stock options and a retirement plan included....
...Earlier this month the board of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest pension fund in the US, voted to use borrowed money and alternative assets to help it to meet its target for...
...One test will be what the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System, a big US public pension fund, decides....
...The Connecticut State Employees Retirement System followed, saying a $125m commitment to Apollo’s most recent buyout fund had been “made under the [state’s] previous administration and we have no plans to...
...Some of Mr Siddiqui’s allies call that fanciful, pointing out that Apollo began litigating against his AEL deal months before it knew one of its employees was involved....
...for more flexible plans....
...• Phil Strano will join Yarra Capital as a senior fixed income manager for the Australian boutique. He previously worked for Victorian Funds Management....
...Finland’s state pension scheme plans to invest another $500m this year, and the State Universities Retirement System of Illinois is jumping in with $500m for its first hedge fund allocation....
...Management fees have risen, but not enough to offset the reduction in income for hedge fund start-ups....
...AMG and OM get some of the diversification benefits of hedge funds of funds (which invest in other hedge funds) but with a steady stream of income and far less of the investment risk....
...Mr Hastie says that in his experience about 25 per cent of eligible members take a transfer value at retirement and purchase a different retirement income....
...Consider definedcontribution retirement plans like 401(k)s....
...• Ted Eliopoulos has assumed permanent responsibility as chief investment officer at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest US public pension plan....
...With sizeable positions in junk-rated corporate debt and non-agency mortgage bonds – themselves risky assets – Mr Ivascyn has also applied leverage to bolster returns in the Pimco Income Fund “adroitly,”...
...One part of the equation in reaching retirement plans – that of identifying the need for alternatives – has been solved, says Kathleen Beichert, director of retirement marketing at Oppenheimer Funds....
...Board, and Teacher Retirement System of Texas, which gave it $3bn....
...“In the US we are looking at over 70m baby boomers moving into retirement that for the most part do not have secure and predictable sources of income,” he notes....
...to fixed income....
...The IRR for the Asian Realty Income I, launched in 2004, to the same date was 11.75 per cent. Forum’s approach is often intentionally contrarian....
...Illinois plans to price $800m of debt next week for school, transportation and other capital projects....
...Greece has the highest “replacement ratio” among the 44 countries, with public pensions equivalent to more than 70 per cent of average incomes, and generous early retirement provisions....
...rated listed asset managers are rewarded for the consistent performance that comes from having diversified businesses....
...Over the holidays, Ms Berner wanted to show her appreciation for employees but did not want to throw a traditionally stuffy Christmas party....
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