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Seniors pay price of financial crisis
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 hour ago
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THE financial carnage of the past year has triggered a surge in the number of older people reliant on welfare. Figures from the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs reveal private incomes for pensioners plunged by...
Tags: ageing pensioners, Australia, Sydney, Personal finance, Employment compensation, Social Issues, Business Finance, Financial services, Investment, Labor, Retirement, Defined benefit pension plan, Pension
Every Shareholder Should Read This Now
Freeport :: NY :: USA | about 2 hours ago
Credibility If last year taught me anything, it's that I'm not nearly as smart as I think I am -- and neither is anyone else...After all, he's spent his life with his nose buried in one book after another, trying to learn everything he can about -- well, everything.
Tags: Tom Gardner, Motley Fool Hidden Gems, Motley Fool Stock Advisor, value investment, Freeport, Motley, Clowning, Middle Ages, New York Stock Exchange, Business Finance, Stock market, Investment, The Motley Fool
Vision troubled as fund managers blindly follow governance advice
Melbourne :: Australia | about 2 hours ago
Credibility The governance industry sprang from nowhere and carved out a mighty lucrative niche for itself, aided and abetted by some investment institutions too lazy to undertake basic research for themselves in, believe it or not, the stocks they own. What happens...
Tags: fund managers, annual meeting, Australia, Melbourne, Corporate governance, Management, Board of directors, Business Finance, Financial services, Corporations law, Governance, Investment, Investment management
No-stock portfolio experiment fares well
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 3 hours ago
Credibility Aside from short sellers and people who had no money in stocks, investors weren't feeling especially grateful around Thanksgiving 2008. In fact, on the Monday after the holiday weekend, the Dow Jones industrial average lost nearly 680 points, or 7.7 percent.
Tags: Barclays Capital Municipal Bond, tofurky portfolio, reit preferred, municipal bonds, U.S, free portfolio, Washington, Funds, Bonds, Finance, Business Finance, Bond, Financial services, Exchange-traded fund, Investment, High-yield debt
Business forum: Colleges must steer clear of the mess
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 10 hours ago
Credibility Our colleges and universities have been investing in a mess that's already here, and I was heartened when I heard that the president of Tufts University, Lawrence Bacow, recommended higher education institutions reduce their exposure to risky alternative...
Tags: private equity, New York City, Institutional investors, Finance, Business Finance, Financial services, Corporate finance, Hedge fund, Investment, Investment management
'B' Shares Sent to Detention
Singapore :: Singapore | about 12 hours ago
Credibility Mutual-fund firms are giving B shares an F—and kicking them out of school. More fund companies are dropping B shares, a class of mutual-fund shares that hit investors with a back-end sales charge, known as a "load," once investors sell. The more-numerous...
Tags: fund house, yearly fees, Morningstar Inc., fund firms, fund companies, Singapore, The Vanguard Group, Institutional investors, Funds, Finance, Business Finance, Financial services, Short, Investment, Mutual fund
Deposits, not remittances, may take a hit
Mumbai :: India | about 14 hours ago
Credibility The debt crisis in Dubai may impact deposits by non-resident Indians (NRIs) more than remittances, given the higher share of deposits in overall inflows into India, according to bankers. Remittances are permanent transfer of funds to relatives back home,...
Tags: Dubai World, Reserve Bank of India, debt crisis, India, Mumbai, Business Finance, Bank, Dubai, Economy of India, Foreign Institutional Investor, Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin, Politics, Participatory notes, Social Issues, Y. Venugopal Reddy, SHUAA Capital, Development, International economics, NASDAQ Dubai, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, ICICI Bank, Investment, Remittances, Human migration, Banking in India
High costs eroding the value of retirement savings
London :: United Kingdom | about 14 hours ago
Credibility The charges paid on certain pension plans are decimating funds and leaving policyholders with retirement income far below the levels they had expected, financial advisers are warning. London personal pension with-profits plan has a current transfer value...
Tags: transfers value, fund value, Royal London, growth rate, Douglas Baillie, pensions provider, current transfers, retires savings, Hazel Brown, exit penalties, United Kingdom, London, Self-invested personal pension, With-profits policy, Personal pension scheme, Employment compensation, Business Finance, Social Issues, Financial services, Investment, Labor, Retirement, Pension
The Guide Top Ten: Helping your children is natural so ensure you have everything in place
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | about 15 hours ago
Credibility The Scotsman gives you a top ten guide to pertinent financial issues. Parents have an average of £41,000 saved in order to help their children, claimed recent research from Lloyds. But what are the best ways of financially supporting your offspring? Lianne...
Tags: IHT, United Kingdom, Glasgow, Life insurance trust, Taxation in the United Kingdom, Finance, Trust law, Social Issues, Financial services, Inheritance, Inheritance Tax, Investment
People: Business rescue role for Dickson at Begbies
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | about 15 hours ago
Credibility Alistair Dickson has been signed up as the latest recruit to Begbies Traynor, the self-styled "business rescue, recovery and restructuring specialist". Dickson, who joins a "growing Scottish team" at the firm, will take some 12 years of SME banking experience...
Tags: James Taylor, Alistair Dickson, businesses rescue, government bonds, fixed income, Begbies Traynor, United Kingdom, Glasgow, Finance, Business Finance, Financial services, Investment, Investment management
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