Dreams of capital gains can disappear in an instant but the discipline of investing for income should pay dividends, as the extraordinary performance of one of Britain’s biggest unit trusts over the last 25 years demonstrates. Anyone who invested £10,000 with Invesco Perpetual High Income when it launched in February, 1988, would have received [...]
In what has become an annual rite of winter, the PBGC recently released PBGC Technical Update 13-1 extending relief from the proposed amendments to the reportable events regulations for certain small pension plans. However, unlike previous years’ relief, the new technical update provides guidance for all plan years after 2012 (or until new proposed or [...]
House prices are rising faster than wages – or homebuyers’ ability to scrape together deposits – making property more expensive than it has been since the start of the credit crisis, according to the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB). However, the independent mortgage broker’s gloomy conclusion about house price affordability is at odds with more upbeat [...]
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The sense that politicians will promise almost anything to make a problem disappear, a rampant abuse of power in the New Labour years, is yet to be entirely banished by the Coalition. A classic example is this morning's report that Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants who are not working will be required to buy private medical [...]
Homeowners worried that house prices may be hit by the controversial HS2 railway’s northern extension, whose proposed route was announced by the Government today and you can see here, may be able to claim compensation – but the devil is in the detail, with just a few yards dividing winners and losers. Both are likely [...]
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Under GASB 43 and 45, public sector employers are required to account for retiree medical benefits under special rules for Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB). Many have chosen to pre-fund these liabilities in a trust similar to a retirement plan trust. At the recent Minnesota School Board Association convention, Van Iwaarden Associates teamed up with an [...]
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Does anyone really believe the GDP figures any more? OK, so I'll rephrase that. Those that want to use the latest dollop of bad news for political purposes plainly do. On cue, Ed Balls, the shadow Chancellor, will shortly be saying that if only the Government had followed his advice and gone easy on deficit [...]
Expect red faces in Whitehall next week about the flop of Green Deal, the Coalition Government’s latest big idea to recycle taxpayers’ money in a bid to improve energy efficiency and save the planet. Not content with more than £1bn a year subsidies for wind farms and solar panels, the Department for Energy & Climate [...]
Pension discount rates continued to drop during 2012 and plan sponsors should prepare for yet another potential upward spike in balance sheet liabilities for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012. Using the Citigroup Pension Liability Index (CPLI) and Citigroup Pension Discount Curve (CPDC) as proxies, pension accounting discount rates may decrease by roughly 35 [...]