This contraction, for the second consecutive year, was primarily driven by falls in the pension and bond markets as lower consumer confidence, limited salary increases and higher unemployment reduced customers' propensity to save and invest for the future. Specific regulatory events, such as the ...
according to Bankrate polling. Additionally, 39 percent of those baby boomers are worried about the security of their money, despite the fact that most
Not every component of an index is given equal weighting. Some components will have a greater influence on an index’s movements than others. How an index is weighted is determined by what the index is trying to measure. Most commonly these days, stock market indices are weighted by free, ...
I’m thinking particularly of the US, of course, with its daunting ~50% share of these global trackers. All those American investors putting too much money in their home market. At least that’s my excuse for underweighting the US market in my collection of trackers, despite talking the p...
So, in this vein, perhaps employees long for more status and recognition, but they have a price: for the right salary or bonus, they’ll be just as happy to stay in their current position, where they are most competent. Given the costs of the Peter Principle, my intuition is that ...
In particular the present value of the defined benefit obligation is affected by assumptions such as discount rate, expected future salary growth and the life expec- tancy at age of 65. Other assumptions for the valuation are derived from statistical data such as mortality tables and staff turn...