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       <title>Cost of City Workers’ Pensions Has Soared - City Room Blog ...</title>
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       <description>More than half of the cost of fringe benefits (approximately $20000) was for pension contributions and 20 percent (about $8030) was for health insurance. Other fringe benefits include items like payroll taxes, supplemental benefit fund ...
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       <title>Madoff scandal hits CNY, expert says pensions are safe : News ...</title>
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       <description>One local financial advisor says pensioners shouldn #39;t panic, with word Thursday that the Bernard Madoff scandal has reached Central New York.
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       <title>Study: Corporate pensions hit huge deficit - SantaFeNewMexican.com</title>
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       <description>An issue that has received scant acknowledgment in the media is the likely hole in pension funds books resulting from the recent out in shares. Pension funds must invest the money they receive today in order to provide pensioners funds ...
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       <title>BackyardConservative: Madoff Fraud Hits Union Pensions</title>
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       <description>Madoff Fraud Hits Union Pensions. So far it #39;s union local pension funds in New York. CNBC. Madoff was a  big Dem contributor. Wonder if it #39;ll hit the SEIU too. posted by Anne at 1/08/2009 02:13:00 PM ...
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       <title>Pension Pulse: Who Stripped Them of Their Pensions?</title>
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       <description>No doubt, Providence is breathing easier now  that they got out of the BCE mega buyout deal which they partnered up with Ontario Teachers #39; Pension Plan. Now they and Teachers #39; are getting sued by Bell Canada for the $1.2 billion break-up ...
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       <description>Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions : Hearing Stream - Title: Hearing for Secretary of Health and Human Services-Designate, Former Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle Date:  Thursday, January 8, 10:00 am Place: 430 ...
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       <title>- Breaking News from New Orleans - Times-Picayune - NOLA.com</title>
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       <description>Stan "Pampy" Barre, a key player in a major corruption scandal at New Orleans City Hall, must relinquish his entire remaining state pension, at a rate of $30000 a year, as restitution for the $1 million he and his co-defendants owe the ...
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       <title>EDITORIAL: Elected Officials&#39; Pensions An unintended, and costly, perk</title>
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       <description>Jan. 8, 2009 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) -- Philadelphia #39;s retirement incentive program is a costly and embarrassing failure on several fronts, and Mayor Nutter  and City Council don #39;t need another drawn-out ...
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       <title>Stock Losses Leave Pensions Underfunded by $400 Billion</title>
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       <description>The collapse of the stock market last year left corporate pension plans at the largest companies  underfunded by $409 billion, reversing a $60 billion pension  surplus at the end of 2007, according to a study released today.
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       <title>Clerical Whispers: Catholic Church seeks ways to fund pensions</title>
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       <description>Catholic Church seeks ways to fund pensions. As  the Swiss population grows older, the more vulnerable members of society must not be left disadvantaged, says a church study issued on Thursday. The Justitia et Pax commission of the Roman ...
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       <description>If pensions in Latvia are not indexed in 2009, the state will save LVL 30 million, as Ilona Jursevska, head of the Welfare Ministry #39;s Communication Department, told LETA. However, in order not to index pensions, the law  #39;On State ...
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       <title>JAMES PURNELL WORK AND PENSIONS SECRETARY UNUM UK: WORK AND ...</title>
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       <description>Perhaps the lesson for employers, public or private, is to transfer the risk and reward of pensions and retirement benefits to private system and to get out of pensions entirely. We have a situation in this nation where the burden of ...
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       <description>U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier gave the U.S. Attorney #39;s Office permission to seize Barre #39;s and DeCay #39;s state pensions, which stem from prior government employment. Barre and DeCay each had pensions administered by the Louisiana ...
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       <description>The value of ministers #39; taxpayer-funded pension pots has  soared by more than double the rate of inflation to £7.5million.
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       <description>More than half will not be replaced by another retirement plan.
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       <description>How Wall Street stole  your investments and pensions. Long, but well worth reading. http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom?page=0. Posted by Duane Campbell at 8:16 PM ...
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       <title>Peter Black AM: Focussing on Pensions</title>
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       <description>Congratulations to Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for Works and Pensions, Jenny Willott for starting off 2009 as we mean to go on by focussing on the poor deal available to pensioners in today #39;s Western Mail. ...
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       <description>BBC investigation alleged fraudulent illegal workings of UNUM UK,UNUM US,UNUM GROUP,Department Work Pensions,Welfare Reform,DWP,UK Government,Labour Party,Prime Minister Gordon Brown,Susan Ring,legal action,donors,party conference ...
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       <title>Pension Pulse: 2008: Year of Reckoning for Pensions?</title>
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       <description>For pensions, 2008 will be remembered as a year of reckoning. All of them were highly exposed to equities and most of them followed the dumb advice of their consultants and diversified away from government bonds, investing billions into ...
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       <description>Find out why pension plans are in danger all over the U.S. - and how that’s affecting the workers who rely on those pensions  for retirement. Also: hear some surprising new details about the Titanic disaster. ...
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       <description>SINGAPOREANS are at the bottom of a ranking of retirement income from pensions in the Asia-Pacific region, says the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). And this is true at all income levels, according to the ...
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       <title>Australian Labor Party : Pensions agreement with Japan</title>
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       <description>The following is a comprehensive list of reasons why you should purchase an investment/pension/life insurance product, or expect unbiased financial advice, from a Bank that is a  #39;Tied Agent #39; of a Life Assurance Company. ...
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       <description>Gordon Brown has publicly stated that he will protect pension holders and savers who are watching their income dwindle. With the Bank of England due to cut interest rates still further this week, many pensioners are tightening their ...
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       <title>Baltimore pensions lose $3.5M in Madoff fund - wtop.com</title>
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       <description>Baltimore pensions lose $3.5M in Madoff fund.
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       <description>Quality of Life Has Improved Since 1995 Basseterre, St. Kitts - Nevis Janaury 06, 2009 (CUOPM) Significant hikes in the minimum wage and pensions.
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       <description>Italian Pensions Sapped by Private Funds Bush Backed (Update1). Post A Reply  Banjo. Registered: Feb 2002. Posts: 1774. 01-06-09 06:34 AM. Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Italy did for retirement financing what President George W. Bush couldn’t ...
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       <description>The responsibility for your financial security in retirement now rests with you.
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       <description>Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott was quoted as saying: “Ministers and mandarins live in a pensions time warp. They look like the First World War general in Blackadder, sipping fine wines in chateau well behind the front line while privates ...
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       <description>In the glamour stakes, let #39;s face it, pensions come somewhere below the Toilet Duck. Not only are they boring but once you put money into one, you can #39;t get your hands on it again for an eternity – and all the time your little pot of ...
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       <description>Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat Work and Pensions Spokesman, said: “Taxpayer guaranteed, index-linked ministerial pension pots shot up by a tenth last year, but private pension pots have plummeted, typically by a quarter in 2008. ...
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       <description>The collapse of the stock market last year left corporate pension plans at the largest companies  underfunded by $409 billion, reversing a $60 billion pension  surplus at the end of 2007, according to a study released yesterday. ...
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       <description>And Crosby, who managed private-sector pensions before taking over as San Jose #39;s retirement director in August 2007, said it would be unheard of in the corporate world to pay earnings bonuses on underfunded systems. ...
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       <description>Tough times put thousands on pension. Updated: 09:18, Friday January 9, 2009. Tough times from the economic downturn have been met with a sharp increase in the number of people seeking a pension. The rate of age pensions being granted ...
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       <description>The chairman of the police and fire pension board says the pension has about $1.5 billion and about $73 million is managed by New York-based UBP Asset Management. He says UBP invested about 5% of that money with Madoff. ...
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       <description>You work for forty years, all  the time saving money in your pension fund. Each year, the spivs take 1% (and many take more) of the pot to pay for their “services”. 1% does not sound much but, as Pitt Wilson points out, ...
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       <description>When Congress created tax-advantaged retirement savings options 401(k) accounts, they were envisioned as supplementing-not replacing-Social Security and traditional pensions as a primary source of income. ...
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       <description>Pension claims soar in tough times. Updated: 08:52, Friday January 9, 2009. Tough times from the economic downturn have been met with a sharp increase in the number of people seeking a pension. The rate of age pensions being granted ...
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       <description>So where does all this leave pension funds? It leaves pensions in peril. And here is the kicker: the U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) - the government agency that insures pension retirement savings for roughly 44 million ...
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       <description>Time for San Jose to join the rest of the world and get out of the pension fund business. The private sector long ago dumped defined benefit plans in favor of defined contribution plans (401K). Taxpayers should not be put at risk ...
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       <description>How can you allow the Grinch to steal precious alpha from our pension funds? Don #39;t you realize that we invested billions of dollars into alternative investments so that we can go back to our stakeholders at the end of the year and claim ...
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       <description>It is an epic car and I’m only sad that unless the healthcare and pensions company that makes it can be turned around, it will be the last of the breed. That last comment #39;s going to leave a mark. Times Online - Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 ...
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       <description>The swooning stock market has left many public employees #39; pension funds with unfunded liability issues. The government employers may opt to increase the vesting period, or resort to hiring freezes, layoffs or attrition to cut overall ...
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       <description>Private-sector employers carried on closing their defined-benefit pension schemes in 2008, figures from the Pensions Regulator have revealed.
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       <title>Daschle Pledges a Bipartisan Reform of Heath Care System - Blogrunner</title>
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       <description>Tom Daschle, Former Senate Majority Leader   President-elect Obama #39;s Secretary of Health and Human Services-designate testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, vowing to take on Healthcare reform. ...
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       <description>Univest Corp. of Souderton will begin offering pension plan services through the acquisition of Trollinger Consulting Group, a consulting company that.
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       <description>Back on December 16th of last year we warned pension funds were in serious trouble. Today, the Washington Post reports pensions finds are now short 400 billion dollars. “The collapse of the stock market last year left corporate pension ...
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       <description>I don’t mean to disparage all of those who get those big, fat %$#@   princely government pensions. I know of people, and respect them hugely, who have taken those pension bucks and run off, no not to the south of France or Tahiti, ...
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       <description>Not too long ago, portable alpha was the hot trend in the institutional universe. Some big pensions embraced the approach--to spectacular results. The Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System... Read more...
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       <description>(a) the terms, benefits and affordability of public sector pensions,(b) the latest trends in private pension saving (and the impact of means-testing), and(c) the latest trends in life expectancy and average retirement ages." ...
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       <description>Wireless woes at Motorola have resulted in a new range of desperate  cost-cutting measures on top of the $800m cost-saving measures announced in October. This month #39;s new measures include stopping pension fund contributions,  ...
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       <title>Maryland » Blog Archive » Baltimore Pensions Lose $3.5M in Madoff Fund</title>
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       <description>BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore officials  say the city’s police and fire pension fund has lost $3.5 million invested  in a fund with ties to Bernard Madoff. Police and fire pension board chairman Stephan Fugate said the board learned of its ...
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       <description>Thousands of retired teachers, nurses, doctors, judges, military personnel and civil servants are facing an average cut in their income of £220 next year because of a vast Government pensions blunder.
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       <description>Liberal Democrat Work and Pensions Spokesman, Lord Oakeshott said: “Taxpayer guaranteed, index-linked ministerial pension pots shot up by a tenth last year. But private pension pots have plummeted, typically by a quarter in 2008. ...
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       <description>Britain #39;s biggest company pension schemes have ended the year with a £3 billion surplus despite suffering a dire 2008, research has revealed.
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       <description>Florida Pensions. Posted by: Dr. Richard Swier | 12/19/2008 8:20 AM. Florida has a pension fund for state employees. The fund appears to be well managed, with employees investing money in the fund, and upon retirement they receive a ...
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       <description>The TUC said people would still receive a reasonable increase in their pensions even if price inflation was close to zero if the link, abolished in 1980, was restored. Ministers have pledged to restore the link between pensions and ...
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       <description>Pension fund faces £2m loss after Madoff fraudDenbighshire Free Press, UK - 3 minutes agoA PENSION fund with the savings of more than 27000 local government workers from North Wales may have lost nearly £2 million in a £32 billion Wall ...
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       <description>... average: 5 out of 5 1 vote, average: 5 out of 5 1 vote, average: 5 out of 5 (5 out of 5); Offshore Banking and Financial … See the rest here: Pep up pensions: give more tax relief to those who need it | Visit … ...
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       <title>Crisis wipes £65bn from pensions | Finance News Blog</title>
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       <description>Crisis wipes £65bn from pensions - Finance News Blog Business and Forex Headline Finance Newsletter.
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       <title>Why the retirement system is failing? « Uncommon Financial Wisdom</title>
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       <description>Company pensions, the same. What was a manageable cost is now totally over the top. Certainly, in the 1940s and 1950s most people could be excused for not seeing this coming down the pike, but starting in the 1980s there is no excuse. ...
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       <description>According to David Kuo, head of personal finance at Fool.co.uk, while such pensions can provide a safety net for people in their post work years, people should not rely on them. He said: "It has also come a long way from the five ...
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       <description>Pension schemes lose £65bn in 2008MyFinances.co.uk, UK - 33 minutes agoA report by Deloitte points to the fall in stock values hitting pension schemes to the equivalent of 17 per cent. However, the returns achieved by . ...</description>
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