Mandelson hints at Vauxhall loans (BBC News)
The UK is prepared to make loans or loan guarantees to help push through the sale of Vauxhall, says Lord Mandelson.
Category: Loans
Pensions Trust faces grilling over stolen laptop security lapse (InsideHousing)
The commissioner will attempt to find out how the details, held by the Pensions Trust, came to be put at risk and whether action is needed to prevent similar data losses.
Category: Pensions
Letters: Cost of pensions in the public sector (Guardian Unlimited)
Here we go again - another attack on public-sector debtfree/”title=”Pension” >pensions ( Cost of public-sector pensions equal to 85% of GDP, think thank warns , 29 June, 2009). The report by the British-North American Committee on government commitments to public-sector pensions in the UK, US and Canada demands clarification on a number of key points. First, the current level of public sector pension provision is …
Category: Pensions
Pensions auto-enrolment could lead to 200,000 job losses (TrustNet)
Auto-enrolment into pension schemes could result in 200,000 job losses, a study by the University of Warwick has found.
Category: Pensions
Pensions chief pessimistic about economy (The Tuscaloosa News)
By Dana Beyerle Montgomery Bureau Chief MONTGOMERY | Retirement Systems of Alabama CEO David Bronner said he’s worried about the economy’s fragile state. “Normally, I’m optimistic,” he said in a recent interview. “But more problems have to be solved than normal.
Category: Pensions
China’s overseas investments surge (UPI)
BEIJING, July 3 (UPI) — China, sitting on the world’s largest foreign exchange reserves of about $2 trillion earned from burgeoning trade surpluses, has been on a spree to invest its money overseas while attracting inward foreign direct investments.
Category: Investments
LAEP Investments Ltd - Material Fact - Cancellation of the Debentures (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
LAEP Investments Ltd. and Parmalat Brasil S/A Industria de Alimentos, Em Recuperacao Judicial , in compliance with the Brazilian Securities Exchange Commission ’s Instruction No. 358, of January 3, 2002, LAEP Investments Ltd. and Parmalat Brasil S/A Industria de Alimentos, Em Recuperacao Judicial communicate to the investors and other participants of the capital market, in complementation of the …
Category: Investments
Yushchenko hopes for attracting European investments to Crimea in frames of realisation of eastern partnership projects (KYIV Post)
President Viktor Yushchenko hopes for attracting European investments in development of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within frames of realisation of the “Eastern Partnership” initiative projects, he has announced at a counsel devoted to development of investment projects in Crimea.
Category: Investments
Fisher Investments zeroes in on Camas site (The Columbian)
Fisher Investments, which employs 200 people in temporary space in Vancouver and has said that it may move its California corporate headquarters here, expects to begin site work this month on a…
Category: Investments
Debt-laden miner Rio Tinto reaps rights bonanza (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Mining giant Rio Tinto on Friday confirmed a huge take-up for its record rights offering after investors snapped up the Australian portion, allowing it to pay off a large chunk of its heavy debt.
Category: Debt