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Government pensions – review of costly public sector schemes

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Government pensions - review of costly public sector schemes

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Company Pensions – ‘end of road’ for final salary schemes

Friday, May 28th, 2010

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.

Personal pensions a priority as occupational pensions crisis continues

Friday, May 14th, 2010

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.

Final salary pensions crisis hits Aviva

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Aviva has become the latest large UK employer to propose an end to final salary pensions. Its own employees and those of subsidiary RAC would instead be offered defined contribution pensions moving forward. Unions say the move could cut their final pension pots by a third.

Pension schemes crisis deepens as costs of police pensions spiral

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

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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.

Company pension schemes creaking under weight of deficits – PPF

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

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Three-quarters of final salary company pension schemes in the UK are now in deficit, potentially jeopardising the pensions provision of thousands of workers, according to the Pension Protection Fund.

Ethical tax on financial transactions could fuel renewable energy

Friday, December 4th, 2009

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.

Vodafone hangs up on final salary pension scheme

Friday, November 27th, 2009

As Vodafone becomes the latest large employer to announce it will close its final salary pension scheme, the National Association of Pension Funds has published a new report which paints a gloomy picture for the future of the gold-plated schemes. Only 23% of final salary schemes are still open to new members, and of those, [...]

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