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Acorn Care and Education, which provides services for children with learning disabilities, has begun exclusive sale talks with Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 17/Jan/2010 00:00
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Congratulations to Honor Blackman. The actress best known as Cathy Gale from The
Avengers, or Pussy Galore from Goldfinger if you prefer, has just
landed a job promoting the..
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Investors are being urged not to access their pensions before the age of 55 unless they have no other income, ahead of a change to the rules in the next tax year
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An end to the default retirement age was signalled this week – which pension advisers said would bring employees greater flexibility over their retirement plans
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Council tax will rise and services face cuts to plug the looming £60 billion
hole in local government pensions.
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If I make additional voluntary contributions to my company pension will I be able to take the money as a lump sum when I retire?
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 15/Jan/2010 10:39
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Policyholders at Equitable Life have accused the Government of dragging its
feet a year after it promised to make speedy payments to people hit by the
problems at the society.
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Barclays is being accused again of dodging paying full compensation to a pensioner misled into gambling her nest egg on risky investments
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 14/Jan/2010 00:00
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My wife is a non-taxpayer. How do I invest in a pension for her to take advantage of the Government top-up?
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 14/Jan/2010 00:00
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Harriet Harman, the minister for women and equality, is bringing forward plans
to scrap the retirement age of 65.
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Workers' retirement plans are being thrown into disarray by employers' plans
to cut pensions contributions in response to Government reforms, it was
claimed.
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Employers are set to cut the contributions they make to their workers'
pensions as a result of new pension reforms.
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Aviva has held regular bonus rates for the vast majority of its 2.1m with profits customers, as the country's largest provider of the long term investments plans benefitted from the market..
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The finances of 7,400 private final salary pension schemes improved in December, the Pension Protection Fund says.
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I'm still working at age 70 and I'm worried that I may be paying too much tax on my earnings and pensions
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 12/Jan/2010 11:56
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Telegraph View Removing the outdated retirement point is an essential
first step towards a more flexible and sensible pattern to work.
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Jeff Prestridge speaks to Tim Jones, the man charged with undoing Britain's pensions timebomb with a national retirement savings scheme
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 11/Jan/2010 00:00
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As the Government plans to no longer force people to retire at 65, we look at the present rights for those wanting to work past retirement age
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 11/Jan/2010 00:00
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Workers would no longer be forced to retire at 65 and could dictate their working hours to their employer under radical new Government proposals
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 11/Jan/2010 00:00
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Investors with Equitable Life may be able to use bonuses given on their with-profit investments to subsidise the costs of moving their money
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 10/Jan/2010 00:00
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The worst recession since the 1930s may have taken a heavy toll on jobs market, but more workers of retirement age are working than ever before
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 09/Jan/2010 00:00
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The government needs to be swifter, higher, stronger... in the Olympian task of launching the new workplace pension
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The announcement of a 5.5 per cent year-end bonus on Equitable Life's with-profits policies drew criticism this week from pensions advisers who had expected larger payouts because of the..
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The Government’s flagship scheme to encourage millions of low and moderate earners into saving for retirement was given a name yesterday, Nest, along with a suitable logo, an egg.
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Pensioners have been urged to check first if they are eligible for a Warm
Front grant - or risk missing out on £3,500.
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Pensioners looking to take advantage of the scheme have been urged to check
first if they are eligible for a Warm Front grant - or risk missing out on
£3,500.
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Personal Accounts, the Government's bid to stave off the pension crisis, have been re-branded as National Employment Savings Trust (Nest)
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 07/Jan/2010 00:00
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The state pension should be raise to £130 a week, according to the first
manifesto of its kind from Saga.
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Where you live can affect the price of your annuity
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Troubled pension company Equitable Life reverses last year's cut in policy values and awards its savers an interim bonus.
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How long before private sector workers revolt against the pensions apartheid imposed on them by a government favouring the public sector?
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 05/Jan/2010 00:00
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More than 75,000 private-sector workers were robbed of their final-salary pensions last year, Money Mail research reveals
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 05/Jan/2010 00:00
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Generous final salary pensions are "all but extinct", experts warned, as
figures showed nine out of 10 schemes are closed to new entrants.
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Nine out of 10 final-salary pension schemes are now closed to new entrants as employers balk at the cost, a report says.
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Employers continue to move away from the high cost schemes, research shows.
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Final salary pension schemes open to new members are all but extinct and a quarter of employers say they will cut their provision for existing members when new personal pension accounts..
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Confusing charges on self-invested personal pensions are costing investors thousands and putting them off saving for retirement
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 04/Jan/2010 00:00
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Some 90% of all final salary pension schemes are closed to new members, according to actuaries, with the remainder now under serious threat
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 04/Jan/2010 00:00
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At least a third of the UK's 100 largest companies are planning to cut pension
liabilities through outsourcing or other means of derisking their schemes,
according to pension..
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Pre-retirees who shop around for an annuity are 50 times more likely to get a better income
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My company pension scheme is not structured for "salary sacrifice" – can I do anything about this to save on National Insurance contributions (NICs)?
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Average value rose from £75,000 to £162,000 by end of the decade.
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Banks have been accused of profiteering as new figures show they increased
their profit margins on mortgages.
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Britain's most expensive street has been revealed as a London square where the
average home costs £5.4 million.
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More than a million fewer Britons are members of a company pension scheme than
a decade ago, according to official figures uncovered by the Conservatives.
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Pensioners have been awarded a Christmas bonus of just £10 this year - the same amount as when it was introduced almost four decades ago
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 22/Dec/2009 00:00
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The funding shortfall faced by the UK's biggest defined benefit pension
schemes has broken through the £100 billion barrier for the first time,
research said today.
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The 5m people in final salary pension schemes are facing a shortfall amounting to £20,000 each. What do you need to know if yours is at risk?
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 21/Dec/2009 00:00
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More than 20,000 pensioners who worked at chocolate firm Cadbury or for local authorities in Berkshire should be protected by deals agreed last week
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 19/Dec/2009 00:00
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Savers in their early 50s have barely three months to decide whether to dip into their pensions while they still can
thisismoney (daily mail, eve. standard, metro) 19/Dec/2009 00:00
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Rises in the stock market this year are now allowing people to retire earlier than they had feared, new research shows.
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