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...“Frankly, there’s no reason why any of the pension funds here should say ‘oh, I’ve got to invest in the UK’....
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...Trustees of UK pension schemes would be prevented from taking “overly risky” decisions after government plans to ease employers’ access to billions of pounds in pension fund surpluses, ministers said....
...The supervision of contributions is the responsibility of pension providers and the trustees of every pension fund....
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...Since 2021, trustees of the UK’s biggest pension schemes have been required to identify, assess, manage and disclose climate-related risks and opportunities....
...There is talk of consolidation of local authority pension plans, too, but this plan is also not very radical....
...Hunt is not proposing to mandate pension fund trustees on where they should invest their money....
...The Pensions Regulator wrote to more than 300 pension funds, which include a mix of private-sector defined benefit and defined contribution schemes, according to a person familiar with the matter....
...The immutable right of pension trustees to invest as they see best on behalf of their members runs through this debate....
...“So having any kind of fixed allocation suggests putting another objective above the [pension] trustees’ focus, which is risk-adjusted returns.”...
...In the March Budget, the Treasury flagged further reorganisation of local government pension assets....
...Fiscal policy: Is the state pension really ‘a Ponzi scheme’? Labour markets: UK wages: which sectors are driving up pay?...
...Pension trustees of all stripes rightly bristle at the suggestion of investment mandated by public policy goals lest the needs of UK plc aren’t best for their membership....
...of local authority pension cash, said....
...Mark’s pension contributions, of around £44,000, were refunded to Claire, while around £165,000 of the fund was returned to the employer....
...Savers logging on to check the value of their automatic enrolment workplace pensions are confronted with falls of 10 per cent or more in the value of their funds....
...The closest thing that the UK has to Canada’s public pension plans are the local government pension schemes, which are around 90 regional funds, and these are quite heavily invested in equities already and...
...“Giving pension funds a two-week window to get things in order was not a good idea because it made them into forced sellers and didn’t give much thought to the nature of pension fund assets and how quickly...
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