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Liu and Tonks (2012) [2] examine the effect of a company's pension commitments on its dividend and investment policies, assessing the impact of funding rules under the MFR, and also under the funding requirements introduced under the Pensions Act 2004. They find a strong negative relationship between a firm's dividend payments and its pension ...
The Minimum Funding Requirement (MFR) was a part of United Kingdom legislation in the Pensions Act 1995, and was introduced on 6 April 1997.The Pensions Act 2004 abolishes the MFR replaces it with new "statutory funding objective"; this came into force on 30 December 2005 for all pension schemes with a valuation date after September 22, 2005.
The 1995 Pensions Act increased the state pension age for women from 60 to 65 in order to equalise the age with men, with the change to be phased in over ten years from 2010 for women born between 1950 and 1955. [3] This transition was later sped up by the 2011 Pensions Act. [4]
Government pensions form a big part of retirement income for many people. Current retirees rely on those still in the workforce to contribute to the country's pension system, which funds their...
In a move that could significantly impact the retirement income of millions of Americans, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is pushing to repeal a set of Social Security rules that reduce ...
Fortune sat down with Benna to discuss how the 401(k) has evolved since it became mainstream in the 1980s, the death of pensions, who the plan works best for, and the future of retirement in the U.S..
Pension Law Reform (1993) Cm 2342, also known as the Goode Report after its leading author, Roy Goode, was a UK government commissioned inquiry into the state of pensions in the United Kingdom, which ultimately led to a set of statutory reforms in the Pensions Act 1995.
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Defined-benefit pension plans were already barely treading water heading into 2020. In the years ahead, the risk is as great as ever that a large swath of them will drown.As ...