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US pension funds no longer the big boys

... Motors remains in the rankings but has since slipped from number 7 to number 14. Taking the top spot is Japan's Government Pension Investment fund with US$870 billion in total assets followed by Norway's Government Pension with around a quarter that ...

UN signs up $6 trillion to responsible investing

... bottom line and its share price," said Gardener. Knut N Kjaer, executive director of the $330 billion Norwegian Government Pension Fund, agreed that paying more than just lip service to responsible investing has its financial rewards. "We manage assets ...

Asgard flags plan to step ahead of competitors

... also be catered for as they will be the ones dominating the work force in the coming years. "By 2040, most government pension schemes will have exhausted their last investment so the need to self-fund retirement is even stronger for Generation Y than ...

Australians are starting their retirement saving too late: Citibank

... back of Citibank research released last month that showed 48 per cent of retirees are planning to rely on the government pension as their primary source of income. It also showed that the average pre-tax income for that demographic was just $22,000 per ...

Westpac launches zero monthly fee account

... pensioners and 'disadvantaged Australians'. 'Westpac One Basic' is a basic bank account for people who receive a government pension or allowance. Its features include no monthly fees, unlimited fee free transactions and an optional savings account which ...

ESSS call off industrial action and work bans

... with a common law deed of agreement, reportedly preventing their pension assets being pooled with the large government pension fund, that has unfounded liabilities in excess of $11 billion. The Finance Minister John Lenders said that this was in keeping ...

Women retirees worse off than men: Citibank

Women may make better drivers than men but they fail to apply the same level of precaution when it comes to their retirement, at least according to the latest Citibank research on retirement savings. The report, which looked at the retirement savings ...

Higher gross salaries in recent times amongst Australians: ABS

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in its latest release of household incomes and income distribution has said that income tax liability of households had increased in recent years, reflecting higher gross incomes and an increasing number of ...