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...Just $830mn of domestic institutional and banking capital in Africa is invested in climate solutions and clean energy, a fraction of the $1.4tn assets managed by local institutions including pension funds...
...“Frankly, there’s no reason why any of the pension funds here should say ‘oh, I’ve got to invest in the UK’....
...In turn, these were paid out of the pockets of fund manager’s clients — pensions funds and the like....
...“The union pays everything, 130 per cent of wages to cover pensions. Nobody should lose a cent because of the strike. We have funds to last years.”...
...They may also be offered a pension with a local government retirement scheme....
...The administration intends to fund extra spending with increased revenue collection....
...And some concrete investment has been announced: $50mn from the New York State pension fund; £4mn from insurance technology company Frontline; a Bank of America-funded skills scheme for students from disadvantaged...
...Some of them are university pension funds. So they’re not all, you know, rapacious City slickers. Lucy Fisher And George, this is becoming a big electoral issue, isn’t it?...
...For instance, about 70,000 members of the University and College Union will resume strike action on Monday despite their employers’ offer of new proposals on pay, conditions and pensions....
...A group of Croatian private pension funds stepped up to take an interest in one of their largest contributing companies....
...Listen to the Working It podcast with guest Max Dickins, author of the memoir Billy No-Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem....
...pay and pensions....
...Independent unions are illegal in China; they have to be overseen by the local government, which more often than not, sides with management to suppress unrest....
...Our pensions are in the NHS scheme and the rent on the premises is paid for by the local health board. What would change if I were salaried, and paid directly by the NHS?...
...and pension cuts....
...Local primary schools are struggling to enrol children, raising the prospect of mergers or closures....
...Richard Portes: No single one! Serious planning reforms. Terminating HS2, using funds for other infrastructure investment. Reversing immigration restrictions....
...Meanwhile, the PCS civil servants’ union said it had received a “massive yes vote” for strikes at 126 departments and other public bodies, including the Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions and...
...BT’s £47bn pension scheme wrote to MPs this week saying it would be more careful in future. Our conclusion was that most funds will do the same, which will raise costs for sponsoring employers....
...Say what you like about European Union structural funds, but they were structural....
...The officers spent a quarter of their careers in education, and enjoyed free healthcare, subsidised childcare and early pensions....
...SOC Investment Group, which works with union-sponsored pension funds holding about 1.8 million shares of SBUX, has called on Starbucks to review its succession-planning policy....
...The local governments all say the particular thing there is that the unions actually have bargaining arrangements with the Local Government Association there, so it’s not quite the same sort of handed-down-from-central-government...
...One pathway is the dormant assets fund, a pot worth £880mn from financial assets including bank accounts, pension schemes and securities that have been untouched for a long period....
...“Our gas payments help fund this war.” His grandmother argued he had no experience of suffering, as she did....
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