pension
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In recent days the Japanese finance minister, Satsuki Katayama, has signalled a possible shift in government pension fund assets towards domestic investment.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Yield-sensitive investors” such as pension funds and insurers are “paying a premium for longer-duration bonds,” says Yuri Seliger, credit strategist at BofA Global Research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Double-check the terms of the survivor options of your military pension and state pension.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
While life expectancy has stagnated, in more than 90% of areas, healthy life expectancy has dropped below the state pension age, with Britons now living about a quarter of their lives in poor health.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
He was also promised a pension of £200 a year.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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Shift pensions from defined-benefit to defined-contribution models, and move risk off government balance sheets, as Australia did in the 1980s and 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Long-shot goals, like restoring auto worker pensions, could be in play in the next round of talks in 2028, said Art Wheaton, a labor expert at Cornell University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Given that your pensions and disability payments will drop to around $30,000 a year after your death, it makes sense to maximize your Social Security benefits.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Sure, but you’d also have Social Security and whatever other income you might have coming in from pensions or annuities.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
The President awarded the three detectives the People’s Medal and gave them lifelong pensions.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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By then she had already been medically pensioned out of West Yorkshire Police.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023
The family is now composed of the same sort of banal attention-seekers and time-servers as the rest of Europe’s pensioned aristocracy, which includes Facebook-addled coup plotters and Epstein island guests of honor.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2023
The airline struggled with a 51-day pilots' strike between September and November 2017, grounding half its fleet and resulting in dozens of pilots being fired, while others resigned or were pensioned off.
From Reuters ● Nov. 25, 2021
It’s also an issue in the United States, although a lot of independent groups and regulators put forth measures to find homes for retired and pensioned horses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2020
“Not that it need come to that,” Mr. Owen blurted, meaning Tansy might marry and be saved before she was pensioned off.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Downpour and Inferno are states that people drive between pensioning their senators and whitegoods.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
When Iowa sent a pension to Joseph Newt Finney, she joined no less than 26 other States, Alaska and Hawaii, in pensioning her aged.*
From Time Magazine Archive
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From Berlin they learned that Handsome Adolf himself had suppressed news of the Habicht ultimatum in Germany and was thinking of pensioning or retiring him from his post as "Inspector General for Austria."
From Time Magazine Archive
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If that meant that the company was pensioning him off, Mr. Pratt must have had his tongue in his cheek.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Public institutions of every kind found in Venice their pattern; the pensioning of retired servants was carried out systematically, and included a provision for widows and orphans.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt, Jacob
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