
How will the government pensions review affect you? Read more here

How will the government pensions review affect you? Read more here
Fifteen of the FTSE 100 companies now have company pensions liabilities that are greater than the equity market value of the company. Experts predict that this spells the end of the final salary pension scheme.
Marks and Spencer and the Wedgwood Museum are the latest to report crippling debts from their occupational pensions schemes. Employees must increasingly consider private pension schemes, as final salary pension schemes continue to shut down.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has called the current crisis in public sector UK pension schemes ‘unsustainable’ and said that time is running out for a shift from final salary pension schemes to more affordable pensions alternatives. The police pension scheme is the latest reported casualty.
An ethical tax designed to raise up to 20 billion euros a year could be the key to funding renewable energy projects in the world’s poorer regions, according to proposals by the French delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next week.
The French concept of a ‘justice-climate’ plan could be funded by a tax on financial transactions, similar to that once proposed by the Nobel prizewinning economist James Tobin.
















