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...A year ago I abolished the pensions lifetime allowance which pushed doctors and others to take early retirement....
...Its $440bn credit arm makes more business loans than some midsize banks, making it not so much an investment outfit as an alternative financial system....
...The California Public Employees’ Retirement System and Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec have also filed a petition that is up for a vote tomorrow, demanding Berkshire publish a climate report....
...According to a recent Bank of America report, 97 per cent of US employers surveyed feel responsible for employee financial wellness, up from 41 per cent in 2013....
...Alison Taylor, executive director of ethical systems at New York University Stern School of Business, sees this as a seismic shift....
...While TDR’s investors include large US pension funds such as the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System and Japan’s Norinchukin Bank, there is also a cohort of “family and friends” who pay lower...
...in Latin America....
...as they explore The Role of the Corporation in Society on Tuesday, May 19 at 3pm BST....
...(FT) Review of a new salutary tale about Deutsche Bank After the second world war, the Allies split Deutsche Bank, which had financed the Nazis, into 10 regional lenders....
...Like an itinerant preacher, he has criss-crossed America saying over and over that billionaires and corporations have rigged the system against ordinary people....
...After all, the group is the Japanese equivalent of America’s Business Roundtable, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers), and Harvard University joining forces....
...Private equity investments for the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System and Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System have also far out-earned public equities over the past decade...
...Joe Torsella, the state treasurer, has accused the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System and Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System of wasting $5.5bn paid in fees to Wall Street...
...Within days of its system opening, Ms Ajax’s department — which has doubled its number of staff to 40 — had 1,300 applicants....
...An extreme example of public investment leading to a governance vacuum concerns the Bank of Japan’s quantitative easing measures....
...We’ve seen the Bank of Japan join Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and the European Central Bank with unprecedented negative interest rates....
...The percentage of global equities at Calpers, the $300bn California Public Employees’ Retirement System – which Mr Masuzoe said should serve as a model for the GPIF – was 50 per cent last year, with a further...
...age, from punch cards to mainframe computers and the complex information technology systems on which modern corporations depend, writes Richard Waters....
...Large US pension funds investing in MLPs include the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System ($1.5bn), Ohio Police and Fire Pension ($645m) and the Oklahoma Teachers’ Retirement System ($480m...
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....
...by giant, uncaring corporations and shocking consumerism....
...Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers), the nation’s largest public fund....
...of our banking system.”...
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
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