• Top 10 holdings of Britain’s best equity income fund as it marks 25 years' success

    Updated: 2013-01-31 06:45:57
      Dreams of capital gains can disappear in an instant but the discipline of investing for income should pay dividends, as the extraordinary performance of one of Britain’s biggest unit trusts over the last 25 years demonstrates. Anyone who invested £10,000 with Invesco Perpetual High Income when it launched in February, 1988, would have received [...]

  • Things worth reading: 31st January 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-31 04:36:18

  • Déjà Vu All Over Again: PBGC Extends Reportable Event Relief for 2013 and Beyond

    Updated: 2013-01-30 21:54:10
    In what has become an annual rite of winter, the PBGC recently released PBGC Technical Update 13-1 extending relief from the proposed amendments to the reportable events regulations for certain small pension plans. However, unlike previous years’ relief, the new technical update provides guidance for all plan years after 2012 (or until new proposed or [...]

  • Things worth reading: 30th January 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-30 08:23:38

  • House price affordability slumps to three-year low; or does it?

    Updated: 2013-01-30 06:45:16
    House prices are rising faster than wages – or homebuyers’ ability to scrape together  deposits – making property more expensive than it has been since the start of the credit crisis, according to the Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB). However, the independent mortgage broker’s gloomy conclusion about house price affordability is at odds with more upbeat [...]

  • New Proposal to Reform Federal Student Aid

    Updated: 2013-01-29 22:34:16
    CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Donate Recent Posts New Proposal to Reform Federal Student Aid Line Items : Hockey Edition MY VIEW : Maya MacGuineas Thomas Rippon Washington Post on the Proper Target for Debt Reduction Senator Murray Brings Citizens Into Budget Process We Still Need Postal Reform Camp Offers New Ideas on Financial Products Tax Reform Coburn : Reasons to Raise the Medicare Age By month January 2013 50 December 2012 42 November 2012 48 October 2012 55 September 2012 49 August 2012 60 July 2012 48 June 2012 48 May 2012 45 April 2012 51 March 2012 45 February 2012 45 All Archives By Keyword Budget Process and Rules 212 Budget Projections 156 CBO 193

  • Ship Florida launched in Philly

    Updated: 2013-01-29 19:39:11
    Crowley takes tanker built at Aker Philadelphia

  • 100 Biggest Billionaires: Faces and Assets

    Updated: 2013-01-29 17:33:02
    Bloomberg's list and links of the world's richest

  • Jobless Romanians and Bulgarians to be banned from using the NHS? Yeah, right

    Updated: 2013-01-29 11:08:07
    The sense that politicians will promise almost anything to make a problem disappear, a rampant abuse of power in the New Labour years, is yet to be entirely banished by the Coalition. A classic example is this morning's report that Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants who are not working will be required to buy private medical [...]

  • Things worth reading: 29th January 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-29 05:56:22

  • Online map links 300+ Philly tech start-up firms

    Updated: 2013-01-28 20:34:44
    http://weworkinphilly.com/companies/map

  • DiBruno's in supermarket deal

    Updated: 2013-01-28 15:45:41
    Opens at Harrisburg-area Giant

  • How homeowners can claim compensation if HS2 northern extension hits house prices

    Updated: 2013-01-28 08:45:49
    Homeowners worried that house prices may be hit by the controversial HS2 railway’s northern extension, whose proposed route was announced by the Government today and you can see here, may be able to claim compensation – but the devil is in the detail, with just a few yards dividing winners and losers. Both are likely [...]

  • Things worth reading: 28th January 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-28 07:20:00

  • Even Phillies ace can't save Pa.'s underfunded pensions

    Updated: 2013-01-27 22:29:36
    Larry Christenson, pitcher turned placement agent

  • Camp Offers New Ideas on Financial Products Tax Reform

    Updated: 2013-01-25 22:04:32
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  • Coburn: Reasons to Raise the Medicare Age

    Updated: 2013-01-25 21:34:36
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  • OPEB Investments – The Danger of Playing It Safe

    Updated: 2013-01-25 21:19:06
    Under GASB 43 and 45, public sector employers are required to account for retiree medical benefits under special rules for Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB).  Many have chosen to pre-fund these liabilities in a trust similar to a retirement plan trust.  At the recent Minnesota School Board Association convention, Van Iwaarden Associates teamed up with an [...]

  • A Closer Look at Refundable Tax Credits

    Updated: 2013-01-25 20:30:53
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  • Does anyone believe the GDP figures any more?

    Updated: 2013-01-25 10:43:43
    Does anyone really believe the GDP figures any more? OK, so I'll rephrase that. Those that want to use the latest dollop of bad news for political purposes plainly do. On cue, Ed Balls, the shadow Chancellor, will shortly be saying that if only the Government had followed his advice and gone easy on deficit [...]

  • Things worth reading: 25th January 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-25 05:34:19

  • Red faces as Green Deal fails to recycle taxpayers’ cash

    Updated: 2013-01-25 00:15:58
    Expect red faces in Whitehall next week about the flop of Green Deal, the Coalition Government’s latest big idea to recycle taxpayers’ money in a bid to improve energy efficiency and save the planet. Not content with more than £1bn a year subsidies for wind farms and solar panels, the Department for Energy & Climate [...]

  • Pa. pension up 12%, still $14B short; 8% raise for boss

    Updated: 2013-01-24 21:08:51
    Gov calls SERS "a tapeworm"

  • ICG sells InvestorForce to MSCI for $23M

    Updated: 2013-01-24 16:16:42
    Price is less than half the Wayne firm's 2000 venture capital funding

  • Things worth reading: 24th January 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-24 08:08:06

  • Bala Cynwyd security firm says Bush officials joined board

    Updated: 2013-01-23 21:12:24
    Beltway insiders join LaserLock Tech

  • Merged firm picks Philly name

    Updated: 2013-01-23 21:00:34
    Phone to UI: WVT will be Alteva

  • Things worth reading: 23rd January 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-23 08:11:22

  • Things worth reading: 22nd January 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-22 07:44:52

  • Things worth reading: 21st January 2013

    Updated: 2013-01-21 07:10:28

  • Industry, not homes, for riverfront site

    Updated: 2013-01-17 18:13:25
    Henon targets Bridesburg tract

  • Google, First Round back Invite founders' Flatiron Health

    Updated: 2013-01-16 19:45:47
    LabCorp also puts cash in latest Nat Turner-Zach Weinberg shop

  • Expect Lower Discount Rates (and Higher Liabilities) for 2012 Pension Disclosures

    Updated: 2013-01-16 19:28:04
    Pension discount rates continued to drop during 2012 and plan sponsors should prepare for yet another potential upward spike in balance sheet liabilities for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2012. Using the Citigroup Pension Liability Index (CPLI) and Citigroup Pension Discount Curve (CPDC) as proxies, pension accounting discount rates may decrease by roughly 35 [...]

  • SAP slips on weak U.S. sales

    Updated: 2013-01-16 19:17:39
    "Trends remain positive" for HANA, mobile, cloud, says Janney's Kim

  • PA pension fund: No gun shares here

    Updated: 2013-01-15 21:45:01
    Why Pennsylvania says it doesn't need to divest gun stocks

  • Lockheed, Catalent empty S. Jersey space

    Updated: 2013-01-14 15:52:28
    But PHH, Freedom Mortgage are taking new space

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