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...“Clare Chalmers and Claire Meier were both disadvantaged as a result of trustees refusing to use their discretion,” said David Penney, director with Penney, Ruddy and Winter, a firm of independent chartered...
...“We want impact, not to shave off 5 per cent of their costs,” she says. Yet the trust’s willingness to sustain its grants in tough times marks it out as an outlier....
...The industry not only faces the maintenance costs of keeping ships in good shape for when holidays can restart but also significant cash outflows as customers claim refunds for cancelled trips....
...Goldman Sachs confirmed that Michael Daffey, co-chief operating officer of its equities business, co-chair of its business standards committee and a member of its UK Trust Board of Trustees for The Global...
...Trusts are able to avoid scrutiny under both US and international rules as long as the owner appoints a local trustee and a foreign “protector” to direct the trustees....
...This appeared to disqualify both Mr Dauman and Ms Redstone because they are on the board of trustees established to control her father’s media holdings in the event of his death....
...When pressed, he adds: “The board members might earn fancy salaries in their day jobs, but they are essentially doing this for free. Basically a good lunch is all they will get out of it.”...
...Consultants who advise fund trustees are frequently accused of paying too much attention to fund managers’ short term performance....
...Over the past seven months, investors including the heirs to the Rockefeller Standard Oil fortune and the board of trustees at California’s Stanford University, have decided to avoid shares in coal companies...
...him to chair his Legacy Trust, which raises funds to promote education and training in Africa....
...Over the past 30 years, Mr Monks says US shareholder activism has mostly been the preserve of a number of large public pension funds such as the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the California...
...In particular, with California $24bn in the red, hanging over Calpers is the spectre of the state and local employers trying to restrict their contributions in a year of negative returns on its assets....
...Would you not agree that there is at least the perception of a conflict of interest in Roger Maynard being both chairman of the BA pension fund trustees and director of alliances? WW: No....
...Two fellow trustees of an educational institution where he sat on the board say they had long had reservations about his reported returns....
...You might also consider the effect of the ”sin” tax rises on your personal circumstances. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. I am the chairman of a Board of Trustees of a charity....
...What is the most tax efficient vehicle for the money? Who should be on the board of trustees of the proposed entity?...
...In a recent speech to students at Sabanci University, where she is chairman of the board of trustees, she encouraged them to “think critically and independently”, and be “self-assured, self-aware and purpose-oriented...
...Martin Taylor, chairman of the fund's trustees argued, and Permira accepted, that pension fund members should be given the same priority as senior creditors....
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