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...He was formerly executive vice-president and head of private equity at pension fund Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec....
...Seizing on the plight of 30,000 Toys R Us employees, they are urging public pension funds to reassess their role as financial armourers to hard-charging buyout funds, writes the FT’s Mark Vandevelde....
...The only potential investor publicly to have declared an interest, the commodities trading firm Liberty House, is seeking state support, including handing over responsibility for a £15bn pension fund, which...
...Could pensions freedoms could be bad news for fund managers? Merryn: One of the really exciting things that pensions freedoms is going to do is transform the fund management industry....
...April 18 and 19 At the International Monetary Fund spring conference in Washington, George Osborne on Saturday promised a Conservative government would improve banking for ordinary citizens by increasing...
...Pension funds and endowments contribute much of the investment capital, and the PE firm gets 20 per cent of the gains by selecting investments and running the fund....
...That tax is paid into the Social Security trust fund but, as the fund only invests in government securities, it is more of an accounting entry than a stockpile of assets....
...They’d been worried for weeks about the losses they were facing on U.S. home loans....
...At the end of 2010, 23 per cent of US households’ financial assets were held in mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds and unit investment trusts, according to data from the ICI....
...Mr Romney is hoping to cement his hold on the 2012 Republican presidential nomination in today’s primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington DC, all of which he is strongly favoured to win....
...American mutual funds, pension funds and retail investors allocate relatively small portions of their $37,000bn in capital to new infrastructure initiatives....
...But many no longer trust such assurances – pointing out that the private pension funds were also agreed by private contract – and Orban’s government had no compunctions over nationalising them....
...Bob Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute and one of two trustees of the Social security and Medicare trust fund, said that although individuals may not be able to sign up for the benefits, there...
...For 21 years, he worked at the International Monetary Fund in Washington....
...So far, the Civil War Preservation Trust has raised enough funds to buy 698 acres, and is appealing for donations to buy another five. But it is not only the core battleground that is in peril....
...From the SEC’s press release: Washington, D.C., Sept. 30, 2010 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a pair of employees at Boston-based State Street Bank and Trust Company with misleading...
...Mr Waddell says the bank is shortly to sign a deal to manage a Middle Eastern pension fund – adding to a portfolio that includes management of Australia’s Future Fund pension plan and China’s National Social...
...It has, for example, recently obtained upstream rights in Kazakhstan, and added 50,000 barrels of daily oil and gas production with a C$4.1bn (US$4bn, £2.7bn, €2.9bn) purchase of Harvest Energy Trust, a...
...Especially traumatic is the way people found out that the “social contract” around pensions and retirement funds, promising ever-rising value, is not an enforce-able contract they can count on....
...The Stuyvesant Town deal has also hurt Florida’s pension fund, which lost $250m on its equity stake, according to Bloomberg: “We are carrying that investment at zero because the market softened dramatically...
...Miller, 59, whose Legg Mason Value Trust fund beat the S&P 500 a record 15 straight years through 2005, trailed the benchmark for the next three years as investments in homebuilders and banks soured....
...Have you made any pension provision? My wife and I have pensions through my company Columbus Rose, that I set up in 1995. Back then, it was just me and my wife. We took on our first employee in 2000....
...The three – all Indiana state pension funds – are among a group of 46 creditors that had appeared to back away this month from efforts to derail the process under which a “new” Chrysler would emerge from...
...BofA’s pledge to pay back Tarp funds comes as a group of US and European pension funds sought to consolidate 11 shareholder lawsuits into one class action against BofA for not warning investors about the...
...and healthcare trusts....
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