The report mentions other long-term priorities such as ensuring transport links, improving island infrastructure such as the roads, harbours and broadband access and speed, security of energy supply and planning for increasing health and pension costs due to an ageing population.

BBC: Peter Harwood

But corporate managers are also to blame for searching high and low to find actuaries who would supply such inaccurate forecasts in order to lower pension costs and improve profits.

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Like many other pension advisers, Callan was asked to supply information about its dealings to the SEC.

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The bottler, which operates in North America, Turkey, Russia, Greece and Spain, said it would refine its selling and service organization, lower its general and administrative expenses, make its supply chain more efficient and modify its defined benefit pension plans in the U.S. and Canada.

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Indeed Labour has harmed the supply side of the economy by increasing the regulatory and pension burden on companies.

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Besides altering the balance between supply and demand, the influx of insurance company and pension fund money should create more price stability for emerging market bonds.

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Even in primitive northwestern Europe, where Rome stationed its army at frontier posts like Cologne, Mainz and Vienna, cash salaries and pension payments, plus the use of private businesses to supply food, arms and other necessities, ensured a city-centered, money-based market economy.

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But Jonathan Absalom, who is a Kent supply teacher, said he did not think the government had provided any evidence of the affordability of the pension scheme.

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