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Aligned advisers return to UK

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... tentative step back into advice was driven by new pensions freedoms announced by then Chancellor the Exchequer George Osborne in the June 2015 Budget. The new measures meant that from April 6, instead of being required to buy an annuity with their pension ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... £250bn of funds if they ran short of US dollars, euros or yens. UK Exchequer on Brexit Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne ahd this to say about Brexit: "It is inevitable that Britain's economy is going to have to adjust to the new situation ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... proposals. British equities also forged higher on the budget presented to parliament on Wednesday by finance minister George Osborne, which outlined new austerity measures. London's benchmark FTSE 100 finished 0.91 per cent higher to 6,490.70 points. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies closed 1.57 per cent higher at 6,945.20 points after British finance minister George Osborne raised the country's growth forecast to 2.5 per cent while slashing its deficit forecasts. Frankfurt's DAX 30 index ...

Bring on compulsory annuities, says Deloitte partner

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... hurt the government" as it would have to guarantee it. The debate came just weeks after the British chancellor George Osborne announced in the UK budget that he would scrap compulsory annuitisation, following some poor market behaviour by annuities providers ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... the way towards challenging the domination of Uncle Sam's greens. Two days before, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne revealed that the UK is in "active" negotiations with China to set up a clearing bank in London and that he expects this to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... points, and in Paris the CAC 40 climbed 0.28 per cent to 3,590.50 points. In London, Britain's finance minister George Osborne updated his budget plans and released revised government growth and debt forecasts. He warned that the economy was expected ...

'Brownfield' infra better suited to pension funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... 'greenfield' risks, said European investor Antin Infrastructure Partners. Referring to British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's recent ambitious plan to raise GBP 20bn from pension funds for 500 infrastructure projects, Mark Crosbie, managing ...

Barclays chief resigns

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... the bank. His decision to quit followed the announcement of the parliamentary inquiry. British Finance Minister George Osborne described Diamond's resignation as a step toward a change in culture. "The chairman of Barclays phoned me last night to let ...

Philanthropy needs simpler support: Perpetual Private

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... Thomas said. The public treatment of private philanthropy is topical, with Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne using his budget speech in March to argue tax breaks to wealthy donors were overly generous and unfair. Osborne's argument ...
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