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Immigration or Bust? Options for Securing the Future Viability of the UK State Pension System

As a result of population ageing and declining fertility, the UK state pension system is unlikely to remain viable in the very long run without a steady inflow of young immigrant workers from abroad. However, with prudent economic management and continuing economic growth, immigration requirements can be contained and modest...

Tags: City University, pension, economic activity

White papers 2004-11-01

Evaluating Pension Reform

The article tries to make explicit notions that are often implicit and sometimes not addressed at all. Discussion of the relative merits of "NDC-type" systems, or of pension reform more generally, cannot take place without this being done. It is necessary to consider not merely public pension systems, and as...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, City University, pension

White papers 2004-09-09

What Is a Promise From the Government Worth? Measuring and Assessing Political Risk in State and Personal Pension Schemes in the United Kingdom

There are three key types of political risk facing state and personal pension schemes: those induced by demographic, economic and pure political factors. Personal pensions are not immune from political risk either, although to date they have been less susceptible than the state scheme: the abolition of the tax credit...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, City University, pension, U.K., tax credit, risk, dividend, tax

White papers 2004-09-01

Employee Saving and Investment Decisions in Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Survey Evidence From the UK

In recent years there has been a significant shift in retirement income provision in the UK from the situation where employers offer defined benefit pensions, to one where defined contribution schemes are more common. This paper uses data from a survey of the members of a mid-sized UK DC pension...

Tags: Benefits, payroll solutions, City University, pension plan, U.K., survey, knowledge, benefit

White papers 2004-09-01

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Merseyside pension fund leads fight to invest ethically

Liverpool City Council will this week become one of the first UK local authorities to try to prevent the region's public sector pension fund from investing in the def-ence industry. A motion expected to be passed by the city council on Wednesday will call on the 4.4bn...

Articles 2008-07-07

Fitch Rates New Haven, Connecticut's $30.5MM Rfdg GOs 'A-'; Stable Outlook

NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A-' rating to the city of New Haven, Connecticut's the city approximately $30.5 million general obligation GO refunding bonds, issue of 2008. The bonds are expected to sell via negotiation on May 28, 2008, with proceeds refunding portions of the city's outstanding series...

Articles 2008-05-22

Churchgoer conned fellow worshippers out of Pounds 3m

A churchgoer posing as a City trader is facing jail after conning his fellow worshippers out of millions of pounds to pay for a life of "wild extravagance". Lindani Mangena, 24, dazzled members of the Seventh Day Adventist church with financial gobbledegook to gather funds for a...

Articles 2008-03-08

Barings Wins Multiple Active International Equity Mandates

BOSTON -- Barings announced today that it has been awarded more than 18 new active international equity mandate wins which have added over $150 million dollars in funding in December 2007. Plans that have hired Barings to run funds in this mandate include Milwaukee County Employees' Retirement System,...

Articles 2008-01-24

Governor's Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission Releases Report on Funding Status of Public Pension Plans

BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Today, the Governor's Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission released a study concluding that California's governments face an estimated $63 billion shortfall in pension obligations. The study examined pension systems representing 99% of the state's current public pension obligations from all levels of government. State and local government...

Articles 2007-07-12

Arts sector brands culture bill 'a wasted opportunty' LAW: RESPONSE

THE Culture Scotland Bill is "a slap in the face to the Cultural Commission" and a "wasted opportunity" which contains "no big messages" and "no definition of what culture is". That is the view of some of Scotland's leading arts organisations in their recently-published official responses to the draft legislation....

Articles 2007-05-20

Credit Suisse, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP and Rice University Hold Inaugural Summit on Emerging Private Equity Managers

Leading industry participants, including investment officers from the retirement systems of Texas, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York State and New York City, shared best practices and opportunities for Small and Emerging Manager ("SEM") private equity investment. NEW YORK -- On Thursday, April 19, 2007, approximately 300...

Articles 2007-04-25

Credit Suisse Small and Emerging Private Equity Manager Conference

Credit Suisse, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP and Rice University to hold summit on Emerging Private Equity Managers Showcase speakers to include investment officers from Texas, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, New York State and New York City based institutional investors, as well as other leading industry participants ...

Articles 2007-04-18

Tishman Speyer

Tishman Speyer announced the appointment of Joe Russo as a managing director in the company's Equity Capital Markets Group. In this role, he will be based in New York City and work primarily with U.S. institutional and private investors. Russo joins after eight years with Westbrook Partners, where he was...

Articles 2007-03-28

People.(Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. appointed Mukul Rathi)(DeRoy & Devereaux Private Investment Counsel Inc. appointed John Krakowiak)(Intuit Lender Services Inc. appointed Grantham Spencer )

BIOTECHNOLOGY Mukul Rathi to interim CFO, Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd., Detroit, from controller. EDUCATION Marla Stone to administrative manager, business office, The Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, from administrative officer, WDET...

Articles 2007-02-12

'How can I afford to buy out my brother's stake in the mortgage?'

Jane Stevens has worked for Oxford University for 25 years, including nine years in her current job as an accounts clerk. She lives in the city and her mortgage is on target to be repaid at around the time she retires, assuming she works until age 65. ...

Articles 2007-02-10

'Student debt comes well before pension payments'

Andrew Alcott, 23, is an as-sistant stock planner at Tesco in Welwyn Garden City, earning [pound]20,000 a year. His first goal is to pay off the sizable debts he accumulated while at university. He aims to conquer his credit card debt and overdraft by the end of this year before...

Articles 2006-10-14

With Chen sacking, Beijing warns provinces to toe economic line

BEIJING AFP — The sacking of Shanghai's Communist Party chief has sent a warning to officials across China that orders from Beijing to rein in their local economies must be obeyed, analysts say. Corruption and political intrigue have dominated the coverage of Chen Liangyu's fate after the central government linked...

Articles 2006-09-30

Hospitals sign up for project to test special healthcare courts.(Research notes)(Brief article)

Six hospitals, all in eastern U.S. states, have tentatively agreed to participate in a pilot program to establish special courts to hear malpractice cases. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions is considering a bill to authorize and fund pilot health...

Articles 2006-09-01

Degree program: How to become a risk master.(Frontlines)(International City Management Association)(Brief article)

Byline: Joel Chernoff The University of Reading's ICMA Centre has launched the first full-time masters program based on the professional risk manager certification. The new financial risk management degree program will accept its first students this October. Some 1,400 candidates in...

Articles 2006-06-12

In vanguard again, pension board takes stand on Sudan

NOTHING LIKE a meeting of a pension board to cure insomnia. About an hour of the usual agenda is all it would take to leave a speed freak in a semicoma. But the May meeting of the Philadelphia pension board was anything but business as usual....

Articles 2006-06-09