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...Pension trustees have also said they are worried about the potential threat from such arrangements....
...The supervision of contributions is the responsibility of pension providers and the trustees of every pension fund....
...“Frankly, there’s no reason why any of the pension funds here should say ‘oh, I’ve got to invest in the UK’....
...Nest is the UK’s largest automatic enrolment workplace DC pension fund, with more than 12mn members and £30bn under management....
...Ross Goobey managed the remarkable feat of persuading the fund’s trustees to let him invest in equities and dump the fund’s gilts....
...Fiscal policy: Is the state pension really ‘a Ponzi scheme’? Labour markets: UK wages: which sectors are driving up pay?...
...In 2010, the chasm between the assets and liabilities of the Metal Box Pension Scheme — named for a Crown predecessor company — had reached £700mn....
...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....
...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....
...News round-up Strong demand pushes Arm to close IPO order book early (FT) Australian pension fund buys into European data centres to tap AI boom (FT) Walt Disney and Charter settle dispute that blacked...
...The decision to review the fiduciary duties of pension fund trustees in relation to climate and energy transition risks is significant....
...According to the Office for National Statistics, about £3tn in capital has been set aside by pension savers. A 30 per cent uptick in productivity would have a capital value of nearly £1tn....
...The ability of trustees to do this is constrained by the high proportion of assets devoted to liability matching which involves pairing the timing of pension outflows with bond cash flows around the same...
...The irony of investors exploiting the opportunities this creates to fund their own pensions is not lost on me. We have been waiting for some time to buy a hearing aid maker at a reasonable price....
...This charge cap excludes transaction costs levied by fund managers when they trade assets on your behalf....
...This presents a significant problem for Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world’s largest pension fund with $1.7tn of assets, as well as other worldwide pension funds that adopted tough...
...Across the Atlantic, the London Metal Exchange halted nickel trading for a week — and cancelled a day of trades — after a big bearish bet by Chinese metals tycoon Xiang Guangda backfired and left him facing...
...And, under British law, foreign nationals who have been given a custodial sentence may face automatic deportation unless they can provide compelling reasons why they should stay....
...The clients affected — ranging from hundreds of prized ultra-wealthy individuals to pension funds and listed companies — are furious about their exposure....
...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....
...But the EU considered its move part of a broader, positive shift in trade relations under way on both sides of the Atlantic....
...They have also asked the state-run National Pension Service to increase its domestic stock holdings, blaming a recent market correction on the fund’s heavy selling of Korean shares....
...The reforms by the Coalition government, an alliance of conservative Liberal and National parties, will go a long way to dismantle the dominance of so-called industry funds, or not-for-profit schemes, which...
...Forty per cent of Nigerians live in poverty and state funds are yet to stimulate alternative industries. Yet with the population expected to double by 2050, the need to act is urgent....
...Smart reads Michel Jabre, son of Philippe Jabre, a star of Europe’s hedge fund industry in the early 2000s, has launched a fund focused on “conscious capitalism”, underscoring the generational shift taking...
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