The FT has noted: The aggregate deficit of corporate UK pension funds soared past £250bn ($373bn) in March, setting a record for a shortfall due
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The FT has reported that the quality of corproateb debt is at its lowest level for 25 years. Hardly surprising, but it is yet another
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The Observer editorial today says there is : need for drastic changes, not just to the way we structure pensions but to the way we
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The World Bank has announced: 12 November 2008 – The World Bank has issued its first bond where the proceeds will be directly invested in
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There’s a massive crisis in the pensions industry. It’s simply described. We’re living longer so pensions cost more. In February the Pension Regulator proposed changes
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It’s reported that: The UK’s Pension Protection Fund faced a total shortfall of £80.1bn ($153bn) at the end of July from pension schemes in deficit,
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The Parliamentary Ombudsman (Ann Abraham) has found that: The U.K. should compensate Equitable Life Assurance Society policyholders who lost out when the insurer almost collapsed
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There was an extraordinary piece of information in the Observer newspaper on Sunday. It was noted with regard to equity investors that: Retail investors have
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In 2003 I co-authored a paper with Colin Hines and Alan Simpson MP called People’s Pensions: New Thinking for the 21st Century. It was published
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