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...In his Budget, Hunt confirmed new measures that require local authority pension funds and private sector retirement plans to disclose their UK investments....
...Companies need to pay to train workers they might not hire Some of this training used to come from unions, says Mr Harker, himself from a union family, the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters...
...The Scottish Public Pensions Agency and the Local Government Pension schemes are yet to declare how they will handle GMP-related overpayments....
...“We plan to meet with local firms in Swansea shortly to set out clearly our expectations of advisers,” the spokesman added....
...In the past, it focused on specific trades and professions, such as plumbers, solicitors and doctors....
...Trustees of the £11.5bn West Midlands Pension Fund (WMPF) have asked the councils to pay an extra £100m this year because of the fund’s £2.8bn deficit....
...Unions will debate on Wednesday whether they are willing to accept the closure of the £15bn British Steel pension scheme as part of a plan to safeguard steelmaking at Port Talbot into the next decade....
...This is because of local rules requiring some European pension funds to ensure their assets are run by EU asset managers or simply because of a preference for such an arrangement....
...When a consultation on this was launched, both Tata and the pension scheme trustees described the plan as “low risk”....
...We have an example of this practice in the UK in the pensions industry, where employee trustees are elected to boards....
...The National Pension CommissionPenCom is working with trade unions to encourage pension saving and to seek ways to address the needs of non-unionised sectors....
...pension scheme trustees....
...Geraldine Egan, national pension official at the University and College Union for academics and researchers, said members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme feel particularly aggrieved....
...Chilly in shorts The trustees of the splendidly-named Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 572 Pension Fund of Nashville, Tennessee are mad as hell....
...The suit, filed at the Tennessee Middle District Court by the Laborers’ Local 265 Pension Fund of Cincinnati and the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 572 Pension Fund of Nashville, claims the slice of securities...
...But their van is emblazoned with the words “G4S – working with local policing” and the epaulettes on their uniforms carry the red, white and black logo of the private security company above that of Lincolnshire...
...“A lot of the interest is coming from local government pension funds in the UK but I don’t think they are particularly interested in the government plan....
...Cary, a veteran pension attorney and board representative for the Transport Workers Union Local 100....
...The suit was filed by trustees of the Labourers’ Pension Fund of Central and Eastern Canada and the trustees of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 793 Pension Plan for Operating Engineers...
...Unison urged the government to make sure the review was truly independent and took evidence from unions and pension fund trustees....
...TPG plans launch of renminbi fund TPG has joined the queue of western private equity groups rushing to raise renminbi-denominated funds from Chinese investors that will allow them to make local currency...
...And then, together with the Trustees, look at developing a recovery plan that is acceptable to everybody....
...The executive team is answerable to members through a board of 13 public trustees – political appointees and elected officials, many with strong ties to labour unions....
...After the collapse of the dictatorships of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, European leaders were for a while wary of grandiose architectural plans....
...all his state pension and at least 50 per cent of his occupational pension....
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