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City Spy: Desmond pays tribute to Docklands founder – Evening Standard

City Spy: Desmond pays tribute to Docklands founder Evening Standard The shadow work and pensions secretary says: "Thanks to Labour's youth jobs programme, we were beginning to win the fight to get our young people back to work. Yet one of the first things the Conservative-led Government did last year was to scrap our ..

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MetLife eyes further deals – Financial Times

MetLife eyes further deals Financial Times MetLife has already done a deal this year, the €160m ($232m) purchase in June of the Turkish life company of Dexia, the Franco-Belgian financial services group, which Mr Toppeta said rounded out the pensions business in Turkey it got as part of Alico. ...

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Galvan’s Week-Ahead: The summer of discontent leads to High Street blues – Proactive Investors UK

Galvan's Week-Ahead: The summer of discontent leads to High Street blues Proactive Investors UK But foreign exchange traders apparently also see a gun of industrial action pointing at the UK Government in the run up to the threatened public sector workers strike over pensions . Chart wise the UK currency probed over a cent under its key 200-day ...

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Fury as school names staff – Halifax Evening Courier

Fury as school names staff Halifax Evening Courier Jan Holden, of the University College Union, said that while private sector workers could be offered company shares , public sector workers relied on modest pensions in return for round-the-clock working. “Damage us and you damage the structure of the ... and more

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Wealth Check: How to pay off debts while growing a new business – The Independent

Wealth Check: How to pay off debts while growing a new business The Independent However, while the business is new and expanding, it is probably not the time to be locking money up into pensions unless it could directly benefit the business. After paying off all debt other than the mortgage, creating an emergency cash float and ...

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The great bank giveaway bribe: Britain’s deputy prime minister has no shame – Redress Information & Analysis

Telegraph.co.uk The great bank giveaway bribe: Britain's deputy prime minister has no shame Redress Information & Analysis It is one of the reasons why the government has no cash-generation ability to fund the pensions that the baby boomer generation paid for all their lives through “national insurance”. Even national insurance has been spent as general taxation by all ... £1000 bank shares for everyone: Clegg urges Treasury to hand taxpayers sell ...

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Ed Miliband may lack instant charisma, but voters value decency – The Guardian

The Guardian Ed Miliband may lack instant charisma, but voters value decency The Guardian One irony is that Labour will need to distance itself on strikes over pensions all the more strenuously because of its financial dependence. What sort of party is Labour now

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UK class-action law would ‘open floodgates’ for RBS lawsuits – IPE.com (registration)

IPE.com (registration) UK class-action law would 'open floodgates' for RBS lawsuits IPE.com (registration) UK – The UK government will not introduce class-action legislation, as it would open the floodgates for lawsuits against Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), a leading pensions lawyer has argued. Speaking to IPE, Dominic Auld of Labaton Sucharow said that ...

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£1000 bank shares for everyone: Clegg urges Treasury to hand taxpayers sell … – Daily Mail

Daily Mail £1000 bank shares for everyone: Clegg urges Treasury to hand taxpayers sell ... Daily Mail Instead of governance resting with the large investment institutions such as pensions funds and insurers, it would largely remain with the Government. The big institutions which contributed to big 'recapitalisation' issues of bank shares in the run up ...

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Newspaper Briefing, including Greek debt crisis: Eurozone Ministers delay … – Proactive Investors UK

Newspaper Briefing, including Greek debt crisis: Eurozone Ministers delay ... Proactive Investors UK The cut-price route to providing pensions for all: Employers are drawing up plans for cut-price staff pension schemes as they prepare for a radical shake-up of workplace retirement provision.

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