About 900 pensions managers, fund trustees and company finance directors are meeting to discuss the current pensions crisis.
The pensions crisis is worst at older, heavily unionised firms with lots of retired staff and generous benefits.
The paper said that Chancellor Gordon Brown would do well to consult Mirror readers over the pensions crisis.
But talk of a pensions crisis only exposes the pact's longstanding failure to distinguish properly between cyclical and structural factors.
Besides, the pensions crisis will never be solved if the young are not working and the economy is not growing.
To solve the pensions crisis, European governments need to get more of their citizens into work, postpone their retirements, and raise their productivity.
In a performance which was a mixture of inspiration and plenty of perspiration, he pledged to listen to voters' concerns over issues like pensions and the fuel crisis.
He said he now hoped Mr Brown "will take responsibility" for putting right the "crisis" in pensions which has developed over the past decade.
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It is no fault of the workers that the state has not funded the pensions properly, or that a banking crisis has caused the stockmarkets to underperform.
Republicans would like to use the crisis to cut transfer payments and government employee pensions and benefits way back.
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Nor can it reverse the deteriorating state fiscal crisis caused by weak economies and exacerbated by insanely high pensions and out of control spending policies.
Ever since the financial crisis, the underfunded status of many state and local public pensions has foreshadowed an ominous day of reckoning.
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While Greece passes further austerity packages that will slash pensions and raise the retirement age, Germany surfaces as the latest victim of this crisis.
For most Gen Xers however, this trend has been temporarily reversed, where their finances have likely gotten worse over the last 10 years due to the mortgage crisis, a stock market that has shown no growth, companies terminating pensions and passing on more health care costs to employees, job losses, furloughs, and pay cuts, not to mention increasing costs of college tuition for their children.
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The people who got screwed are the Mom and Pop investors on the retail side and the Mom and Pop investors into big pensions and mutual funds who always voted with management every year before and since the financial crisis.
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During this most recent fiscal crisis, trillions of dollars of wealth were wiped out, storied companies were destroyed, pensions were vaporized and the U.S. economy was thrust into a devastating decline.
Proxy advisers are joining activist pensions and unions in urging shareholders to oust directors at major financial companies most affected by the fallout of the credit crisis.
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