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Pain in Spain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2010
... baby bonus -- abolished by 1 January 2011. Public investment reduced by 6.045 billion in 2010 and 2011. Index-linking of pensions -- excluding minimum pensions -- suspended from 2011. Additional spending cuts to save an additional 15 billion this year ...

Troubled Greece to freeze pensions

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
The Greek government has agreed to freeze wages and pensions for three years in a deal with the International Monetary Fund which will help revive its ramshackle economy. Greece reached the agreement with the IMF, the European Commission, and the European ...

Farmland ripe for the picking

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2010
... traded notes totalled more than $3 billion at the end of January. Up more than $1 billion on the same time last year. Pensions & Investment reported that AP3, a European pension fund, has invested $40 million in a number of Russian listed companies that ...

UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
A UK pension fund association that represents more than $1 trillion has put the world's fund managers on notice and demanded they take their role as shareholders far more seriously. Lindsay Tomlinson, chair at the National Association of Pension Funds ...

Macquarie launches lifetime income product

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... with industry funds and wealth managers to make this product available within their existing superannuation accounts and pensions." The minimum investment is $50,000.

Impaired life annuities post record sales

TOWERS WATSON RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010

Pensions fail to direct manager voting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
The majority of investment managers say they vote most of their pension fund clients' proxies at their own discretion - without instructions or guidance from their clients. New research from the Shareholder Association for Research and Education showed ...

IGR signals tax and health reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... Wayne Swann in a statement. The biggest jumps in required government expenditure will be seen in health and age-related pensions, which according to the report will jump two-thirds from a current 7 per cent to 11 per cent of GDP. These increases will ...

AdminPARTNERS to target midsized funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
... last September from its parent company Monteray for $500,000. At the time of the acquisition, GPen (short for Global Pensions Administration System) had 100,000 members using the web-based system to manage member reporting and account records. But John ...

Mandatory online schooling for trustees

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
Ireland's Pensions Board has launched an e-learning system that mandates trustees to undertake professional training every two years - a step some argue could be the way forward for Australian trustees. From 1 February 2010, Irish trustees are expected ...