The re-branding of personal accounts as the National Employment Savings Trust is an important milestone in the process of implementing auto-enrolment and other employer duties from 2012.
While pension debate has tended to focus on accumulation and investment issues it is refreshing to see increased emphasis on how people can safeguard their income in retirement. Falling savings rates coupled with increasing longevity means many people...
US - President Barack Obama called for the discontinuation of tax cuts for investment fund managers in his first State of the Union address yesterday.
FRANCE - The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) has selected Goldman Sachs International and Russell Implementation Services as transition managers.
Investors in Australia, the UK and Sweden ranked highest in a new "Environmental Real Estate Index" developed on the back of a global environmental survey commissioned by three large European pension funds.
GLOBAL - Investors in Australia, the UK and Sweden ranked highest in a new "Environmental Real Estate Index" developed on the back of a global environmental survey commissioned by three large European pension funds.
A group of investors led by Hermes has forced Infineon's designated chairman Klaus Wucherer to promise to step down after only one year instead of five if elected to head the chipmaker's supervisory board.
GERMANY - A group of investors led by Hermes has forced Infineon's designated chairman Klaus Wucherer to promise to step down after only one year instead of five if elected to head the chipmaker's supervisory board.
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