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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People’s Pensions
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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Credit quality of global groups at 25-year low
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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Time for People’s Pensions
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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This is innovative financing and could transform the pension market
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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