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...Notwithstanding what I said above about the trials of being a UK investor, some good news is that last June the Financial Conduct Authority opened up long-term asset funds to self-invested pension schemes...
...Gilmore starts at the largest US public pension plan in July, ending a seven-month vacancy in the top position at the $494bn pension fund....
...In fact, the UK already has in its Local Government Pension Scheme one of the largest asset-based public service pension schemes in the world....
...The pension fund announcement is of a similar ilk. UK pensions have lower allocations to domestic equities than pension funds in many other countries....
...“I put my trust in my financial adviser,” Booth said. “They didn’t register any issues with Hartley at the time.” However, a year later things took a worrying turn for Hartley Sipp customers....
...As one business leader said to me acidly at last year’s Labour party conference: “I don’t want a b***dy ‘partnership’ with government, I want to get on with running my company.”...
...But this time she has decided to borrow to cover the £15,000 surgery at a private hospital in London. “I don’t have a choice about this. If I don’t take the loan I can’t continue to work....
...If you don’t have any stipulations in place — some death benefits can be bought as “add-ons” to an annuity — your pension funds return to your provider upon your death....
...“I don’t want my job and savings at risk at the same time,” he says. “It’s the opposite of diversifying.”...
...A: I instinctively dislike people who take it too seriously, but B: I can’t trust people who don’t get that nothing is more important than food....
...Pension funds and sovereign wealth funds are around 40 per cent of the business. Insurance companies used to be small, but are now about 30 per cent of our business....
...Yet in the fourth quarter of 1974, fearful insurance companies, pension funds, investment trusts and unit trusts together sold more shares than they bought for the first and last time during the decade....
...But he added that it would not be right for pension funds to simply invest in home markets due to ministerial pressure....
...the inheritance tax advantages of pensions — you will need to spend the money)....
...PEPs allowed investments in authorised unit trusts and investment trusts if at least 75 per cent of the value of the investments held by the fund were invested in eligible UK companies....
...The majority of shareholders — including local pension funds and retail holders — would have received Apollo’s price while arb funds got their pay out....
...“I don’t actually think the mutual fund is dead. I think the mutual fund is now a retirement vehicle,” says Dave Nadig, who helped design some of the first ETFs in the 1990s....
...“Private equity is undergoing a reset as tailwinds are now becoming headwinds,” said Scott Chan, deputy chief investment officer at Calstrs, the US’s second-largest pension fund....
...I don’t bet on it, but I’d say that the probability (is) that the world of investors attached to the benign economic environment is too high. This does not breach the rule....
...The biggest reason to believe that the Conservative party is heading towards a severe defeat isn’t the current state of the polls, or the successive local elections and by-elections that suggest the polls...
...And also the funding, I think, is an issue. You know, we’ve seen local government completely starved of funds over the last few years. And yet we’ve sort of got other levers of government in play....
...“It’s inexorable,” says John Rekenthaler, who has been tracking mutual funds for Morningstar since the 1980s. “I don’t see what a mutual fund can do better than [an] ETF . . ....
...Indeed, save for the introduction of pension tax limits in 2006, I struggle to remember any British government decision that affected my finances at all — although new plastic notes are a lifesaver when...
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