Hints and tips:
...“Government needs to recognise this as an international, globally competitive market,” he told attendees at the Trades Union Congress pension conference in London this week....
...“The biggest issue is around the pension fund,” said one person....
...Hunt is not proposing to mandate pension fund trustees on where they should invest their money....
...Weingarten: There are times as an AFT trustee, when you’re sitting on the board of a pension fund and you see $4bn in front of you and you have to make an investment decision. Wow....
...Pension funds knew that the Bank of England wasn't going to let them go bankrupt....
...The pensions regulator insists that trustees do not give a free pass to companies seeking Covid-19-related deferrals....
...It is thus vital that pension fund trustees maintain return-seeking components so that there is a source from which to pay discretionary increases to make good the real income losses....
...Of course, the Intact-Tryg deal contains considerable execution risk. It has satisfied RSA pension trustees, but the break-up is astonishingly complex and will not complete until well into next year....
...But in the meantime Hiro Mizuno, the former chief investment officer of Japan’s mighty Government Pension Investment Fund, draws another lesson: in the aftermath of Covid-19, business schools (and training...
...While there’s no discussion in the note of the recent fantastical PE bid stuff, there’s a little bit of work on how much Openreach could be worth in a world without regulators, competitors and pension fund...
...September 2018 Wirecard replaces Commerzbank in the prestigious Dax 30 index, making it an automatic investment for pension funds around the world....
...Regulators also required pension funds to act. Last year the UK directed pension fund trustees to consider ESG factors or give a reason why they had not. Some investors were already on board....
...On our current DPS forecasts, the majors trade on an average forward DY of 4.7%....
...But pension companies say it is not fair to hold workplace pension schemes managed by trustees to the same transfer standards, as personal pensions, due to the more onerous requirements placed on trustees...
...The CVA (company voluntary arrangement) the Greens are trying to secure could not pass without the support of the pensions lifeboat fund, which would be responsible for taking on Arcadia pensioners if the...
...Pensions look well funded with a surplus of £1.1bn as at 7 March (and a new agreement with trustees which appears to imply reducing cash top-ups over the mid-term)....
...the pensions trustees happy....
...The UK’s Pensions Regulator said it was talking to trustees of Whitbread‘s pension fund to ensure the scheme was adequately funded. Additional reporting by James Fontanella-Khan in New York...
...The FT last year took a deep dive into this sharp-elbowed trade pioneered by GSO, which caused an uproar even in the aggressive world of distressed debt trading....
...Davy said overseas investors are helping to fuel activity, adding: “German and other European pension funds and investors from Asia and the US are combining with domestic investors in the investment market...
...of funds....
...● The Association for Member Nominated Trustees, a trade body representing 700 UK pension funds, has hired Leanne Clements as a campaign manager....
...Ms Lucas said: “The attitude of the pension fund trustees is extremely short-sighted....
...“Even if the [trustees at] pension funds are not required by regulation to contract with an EU-based manager, they may take more comfort in doing so,” she adds....
...The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, the industry’s trade body, has begun talking to regulators, employers and politicians....
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