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Pensions before dividends, UK regulator orders
The UK Pensions Regulator has warned companies they should not continue paying shareholder dividends at the expense of their pension schemes.
In the last week of January I found myself in a meeting room next to the UK's Houses of Parliament, listening to the Treasury select committee questioning the senior executives of Standard & Poor's, Moody's...
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The collapse of Lehman Brothers has left banks, pension funds and other institutions scrambling to replace inflation hedges with the investment bank. But this flurry of activity doesn't mean the inflation market is starting to recover - quite the reverse....
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