Sentences with phrase «say about the pension»

What does this say about pensions and the politics of pension reform?

If they do merge, I would be interested in hearing what they say about the pension.

Not exact matches

«There's a recognition by a lot of the provinces that a lot of people are going to retire with inadequate pensions and they're going to have to do something about it,» said president Ken Georgetti, adding that workers his group spoke to supported a provincial pension plan.

Foucault says French socialists are waiting for Strauss - Kahn to talk about issues like unemployment, multiculturalism and pensions with a socialist tone.

Five years ago, she was poached from Goldman Sachs — where she made her name convincing a number of large pension funds to hedge in the run up to the financial crisis — by Bank of America to run a first of its kind on Wall Street cross-asset, cross-industry structured - strategies group («It's about solutions, not products,» she says).

Trotsky said the pension has about 10 percent of its money in PE — around the national average for large public retirement funds — and has no plans to change that.

Kodak said in a filing that it contributed about $ 245 million to its United States pension obligations last year, and that it has been unable to shrink those liabilities to a more manageable level.

«Pension funds are dreaming about a bubble that isn't going to return,» he said.

So if you're already 52 years old, and you're expecting a nice government pension that's inflation adjusted, and you expect Social Security, and you have to worry less about, say, Social Security cuts for example.

 (You can't say that about far too many defined benefit pension plans, and there is no inflation indexing of other pensions.)

Studies have shown a fairly large percentage of employees are stressed about their financial situation, and worried about not having enough money to retire, said Todd Saulnier, vice-chair of the national policy committee at the Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM) in Halifax.

The Dallas - based firm, which manages $ 23 billion, said the investor - led plan was approved by about 86 % of Highland Crusader Fund clients, including the Houston Municipal Employees Pension Scheme, which sued Highland in May, accusing it of looting the fund.

While GE adjusted by about 17 cents per share last year in pension - related costs, a more appropriate number moving forward is around 24 cents per share in pension adjustments, the JPMorgan analyst said.

The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said: «Earnings are now rising at 3 percent and inflation is running at about zero.

There is a story about Davy Crockett the frontiersman opposing the house of represenattives setting up a pension fund for the widow of a distinguished navy officer, saying «this is not the job of government.

PCS says the government's announcement this morning about public sector pension contributions makes a mockery of the ongoing negotiations and proves that the government is determined to make people pay more and work longer in return for smaller pensions.

General secretary Jonathan Baume said his First Division union, which represents the top seven civil service pay grades, was striking for the first time in its history because members are «angry about what is being proposed» on pensions.

DiNapoli said this «introduction» was not about «a specific investment» the pension fund might make, and none ensued, an unsurprising result considering that Stone Mill barely existed.

«Everyone is worried about everything, the [worsening] budget, [legislative and congressional] redistricting, the economy, pension reform, hydrofracking [for natural gas], casino gambling, and who knows that it's going to be like this time between Cuomo and Silver,» said another.

«We have an ongoing discussion in a broad rubric about ethics, but pension forfeiture has come up,» Flanagan said.

Liberal Democrat work and pensions spokesman David Laws repeated his call for Ms Primarolo to resign, saying the Treasury was «in a state of denial» about the problems facing one of its pet projects.

«We realize that people want elected officials who they feel had issues to not get a pension, but I think there's a difference of opinion with the Senate about who should be included and who shouldn't,» Heastie said late Tuesday.

Abbate, a Democrat elected in 1986 to represent Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights, has yet to formally announce his intentions on the seat but has advertised them openly to local politicos (sources said he has not been shy about mentioning the appeal of the almost $ 70,000 salary bump he would get serving in the local legislature, and the corresponding benefits to his pension).

Shadow disability minister Kate Green said: «This scathing criticism of the government's chaotic handling of PIP leaves serious questions about competence at Department for Work and Pensions.

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Long Island with reporters on Wednesday said he wanted to back up the rhetoric about renewable energy with a push toward divesting the state's pension fund from fossil fuel companies.

He says the pension fund is also shifting away from investments like coal and he's not enthused about nuclear because as a resident of Long Island, electric customers are still paying for a nuclear plant which never opened.

But he previously said his status as a retiree would save the village about $ 80,000 annually because it wouldn't have to contribute to his pension or fund his health care.

That's enough to cover about one - fourth of overall school spending in the two - county region, but experts said it is not sufficient to fully meet rising costs of teacher pensions and other high expenses.

Noel DiGerolamo, second vice president of Suffolk's Police Benevolent Association, which has about 5,000 members, said public - sector workers are being blamed for ballooning pension costs when Wall Street investment houses are the true culprits.

«I was talking about problems with the signal system and the need for upgrades and the need for the state to put more resources into the capital plan and for pension reforms,» Faso says now.

«Isn't this part of a much bigger issue which is there is growing anger in what she calls the court of public opinion not just about the pension and renumeration of what are now public sector employees but about other public sector fat cats including senior civil servants and dare I say it ministers about their very lavish and generous pension?»

Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause New York, talked to Steve Ference about the recent corruption with the state pension system, saying it's a clear sign New York needs to move away from a sole trustee deciding how the 129 billion dollar fund is invested.

Firefighters could not be more serious about protecting public safety and ensuring fair pensions,» FBU general secretary Matt Wrack said today.

Adding insult to injury, Larkin has the gall to talk about pension reform at the same time he is exploiting a legal loophole to collect his own taxpayer - funded pension on top of his Senate salary,» Broge said in the statement.

But the NUEE says they have heard nothing about this programme and describes how many workers have not received pensions or redundancy benefits that they are entitled to.

«As unpopular as it may be to talk about working longer - the simple fact is that if we aren't prepared to increase the state pension age, we will simply pass an ever greater and frankly unsustainable burden onto our children and grandchildren,» he said.

When Arbetter explained what she was asking about — mandated spending being items like pension and health care costs — Serino said greater Medicaid costs should be assumed by the state from the county level.

Revealing Iain Duncan Smith's enthusiasm for putting obese benefit claimants on a liquid diet says a lot about the motivation of the man running the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

«Nice work if you can get it, Mr Speaker,» a Tory MP says, along with some shrill comments about a national pension «outrage».

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, as you'll recall, said (in a statement to the New York Times) that he had «serious concerns» about Cuomo's budget proposal to allow cash - strapped local governments to borrow against future projected Tier 6 savings to provide more predictability in short - term pension payments.

«The average pension for a CSEA - represented employee is about $ 14,000 annually after decades of service, but this boondoggle means the politically favored will minimally receive $ 6,000 annually every year, after one year of service,» union President Danny Donohue said.

Results of a pilot released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) today show 91 per cent of those who had access to an adviser «said that it motivated them to think about work and that they felt they had been listened to».

«One of the weaknesses that we've had recently is that people worry that Labour isn't serious about security, that it's a lesser issue for Jeremy as it were,» the former Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said.

Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves said millions of working families would lose money if the reports were true and urged Cameron to «come clean with the public about their plans to cut child benefit and child tax credits».

Senate Republican leader John McKinney of Fairfield said, «Paying off our pension debt is a good thing, but doing so outside of the spending cap shows that Governor Malloy is still not serious about reducing unnecessary state spending and, further, that he is not serious about pension reform.

Former Assemblyman and senior fellow at the Demos foundation, Richard Brodsky, says if there is another convention, it won't be motivated by concern about legislative ethics, but by social issues that people care more about, like schools, and pension benefits.

How the state raises and handles its revenue is the key, he said, to concerns about ballooning state pensions, providing fair and sufficient aid to municipalities, and retaining industries and residents.

A Blackstone spokesperson told IBTimes that Mulrow did not contact the Public Service Commission about the electricity project and said Mulrow had no interaction with the state pension fund.

The scheme was boosted to # 2.3 billion in March when Gordon Brown committed an extra # 400 million in the Budget, and today pensions minister James Purnell said it would now help about 40,000 people.