KPMG report: [T]he proportion of [FTSE 100] companies that cannot pay off their deficit in any realistic timeframe from discretionary cash flow has increased to
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More evidence that we need a pension tax
The Guardian has reported: Britain’s biggest company pension funds are facing their largest ever collective shortfall of £100bn as a result of the financial crisis,
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‘Two-tier’ share plan
FT.com / Companies / Financial Services – Opposition grows to ‘two-tier’ share plan. Opposition was growing on Sunday to radical proposals from Lord Myners, City
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Defending public sector pensions
Defending public sector pensions | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC. Common sense from the TUC, inclduing: Particularly strange is the call
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Time to take pensions seriously
I presume it is because I’m 51 that so many of my friends and acquaintances have begun to discuss pensions. In many cases this is
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Fund managers are not the same as investors: it’s time we remembered that
Brendan Barber has written on the TUC blog, saying: We’ve been examining the voting records of institutional investors for seven years now at the TUC,
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Time for a ‘pension tax’ on companies
The FT reports: The BT Group Pension Scheme — the UK’s largest private sector retirement fund — had only enough money at the end of
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‘Pension’ is a nice word for re-organising property rights
A commentator on this blog has written: I am glad to see someone else has woken up to the real challenge of the next decades
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Solving the pension crisis
I noticed this article in the FT last week: BT, sponsor of Britain’s largest pension scheme, shocked investors last month by revealing that it would
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