Most pensions are in scenic locations, tucked away in greenery-cloaked hills or near the ocean.
And even under normal circumstances, many public sector workers retire on pensions higher than their final salary.
Pensions often adjust their asset allocation at precisely the wrong time for the same reason.
Obviously pensions have a fiduciary obligation to manage assets in the best interests of their beneficiaries.
Pensions often hire managers their consultants have recommended primarily because other pensions have hired these managers.
What about the pensions of the thousands of employees who held AMR Corp. stock?
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Pensions and trustees have nothing to gain and everything to lose by agreeing to these provisions.
Sumitomo Trust is also said to be part of the portable-pensions initiative, along with America's Citibank.
Those affected can nominate any account in the UK to have their pensions paid into.
Anyone requiring help is being asked to contact the International Pensions Centre in Newcastle.
Pensions historically have been unwilling to pay higher stated consulting fees for truly independent advice.
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Lib Dem pensions minister Steve Webb said the goal was to introduce Leveson's recommendations in full.
At least limited reforms to health care, pensions and the labour market are under way.
Building infrastructure financed through bonds is the alternative we have to consider to underpin pensions.
Consulting to pensions was the least profitable, most labor intensive, service these firms offered.
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The Lib Dems warned that it could weaken incentives for people to save for pensions.
In 2008 when Argentina's output briefly shrank, the government balanced its books by nationalising private pensions.
Delaying the funding of benefits and pensions now will make the burden much heavier later.
Three layers of fees virtually guarantee that the net returns will be uncompetitive to the pensions.
Federal workers are more likely to have fat compensation packages of government-defined benefit plans and pensions.
As the scandals continue and deepen, pensions globally should note that new fiduciary standards are emerging.
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Public pensions provide retirement benefits to governmental workers funded by the workers themselves and taxpayers.
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Public pensions have historically resisted investigating the investment firms that they hire to manage their assets.
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State attorneys general are pursuing allegations that certain custodian banks overcharged pensions for foreign exchange transactions.
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And some 50% of the German workforce is covered by quite generous versions of occupational pensions.
Downing Street has rejected calls to protect the armed forces from cuts to public sector pensions.
With a more rational retirement system, many more charter schools would give up DB pensions voluntarily.
States also have good reasons for wanting charter schools to participate in defined-benefit pensions.
Some residents question whether pensions are really the biggest cause of the city's financial problems.
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So who knows what would happen were these two to merge, what happens to their pensions?
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