technology-enabled lifestyle that allows them to combine travel and working remotely. Some of the growth was due to the enforced rise of remote work in the pandemic - which is now being partially unwound. In 2024 the number of independent digital nomads rose 20% while the number of traditiona...
State Pension Age to Rise to 68 from 2044PLANS to increase the state pension age to 68 were announced yesterday by the Government.
In a statement to MPs, Liz Kendall apologised on behalf of the state for the 18-month delay in communicating the rise in the state pension age. But she said that, having examined the ombudsman's report, ministers disagree that the delay in informing some...
President Emmanuel Macron is determined to reform the pension system and to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64 (he first intended to push it to 65). …According to Macron, the calculus is simple: The French system cannot sustain itself financially, and because life expectancy is ...
We document the rise of SOIs, assess their current investment policies, and describe how their state ownership both constrains and enhances their investment opportunity sets. We survey the most impactful recent academic research on sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), public pension funds (PPFs), and ...
This is compounded by the global decline in corporate tax rates and the rise in tax avoidance and evasion, with some major technology firms, beneficiaries of public support, accused of tax evasion. Crucially, the benefits that arise from foundational investments like education and research, often ...
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I’ve been warming as many Americans as I could reach about the clear and present dangers systematically manifest in London, America and now in Palestine by the man who wrote “The Second Bounce Of The Ball” as if Bankrupting America’s pension coffers in time to swap our Republic for fu...
October 9 2023 UK employment Unwell over-50s at risk of poverty unless benefits rise, study finds Health Foundation research comes as Sunak vows to curb growing number of people claiming sickness benefits ahead of pension age rise September 22 2023 ...
The state pension is not a contributory system. It rests on an implicit social contract: tax and NI deducted from workers’ payslips today is what’s funding the state pension payments made to older generations. As the population ages, funding the state pension in its current form will becom...