MEDDLING bureaucrats in Brussels are aiming to rush through damaging new rules which will devastate British pension plans. full story ![]()
A state appeals court in Albany ruled Thursday to keep private the details of teachers' pensions, the latest in a string of rulings against disclosure of public pensions.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany wants further reforms and savings in crisis-hit euro zone states, according to a report obtained by German magazine Spiegel in which Berlin evaluates progress made under strengthened EU budget rules. The rules have managed to spur in all euro zone countries a "general political mobilization towards structural reforms and greater competitiveness",...
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Workers are in danger of being shut out of the best value pensions unless the Government lifts restrictions around a scheme which is key to its landmark retirement reforms, a committee of MPs warned today.
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For one week, the eyes of the world were turned to a tiny island nation in the Mediterranean. Cyprus, the third smallest economy in the Euro zone (the term used to refer to the 17 countries which use the Euro as their currency), was on the brink of default. It's economy was in shambles and it desperately needed assistance or face certain ruin.
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UK pensions minister rules out further measures to relax pension scheme funding rules to offset the effects of quantitative easing
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Germany is flexing its fiscal muscles over the Cyprus bail-out. Is the single currency doomed?
telegraph.co.uk (2 months ago)
Cyprus reached an agreement early Monday with the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Union on a plan to rescue the tiny debt-choked euro-zone member from financial ruin, Reuters reported. But the plan -- unprecedented in its severity -- will economically handicap the island nation for years.
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The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), Cass Business School and the Pensions Institute are launching a programme on pensions risk and investment management. The first of its kind in the UK, the course is designed to give pensions professionals … Read more »
bankingtimes.co.uk (3 months and 7 days ago)

British pensions will not be paid into Cypriot bank accounts for the foreseeable future and expats are advised to open UK accounts, the Department for Work and Pensions said.
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