pension
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The comptroller directly controls about $2 billion of the city’s pension funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The supervisor of New York City’s pension funds, one of the largest in the United States, asked Anthropic to postpone its stock market debut until risks posed by its artificial intelligence technology are better controlled.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
"I am reasonably OK because I've got a teacher's pension, so I am not destitute or anything," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The managers of funds offering private equity, private credit, nontraded real estate and other alternative assets say it isn’t fair that pension funds and university endowments have access to such funds while small investors don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
“What if I came here each month to your office and the pension were to be handed to me?”
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
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Ostrover realized early that individual investors were crucial because they offered more growth potential than pensions and other institutions, which had invested for years in private credit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Nearly a third of the education ministry's budget for 2027 is to go towards pensions, according to a government report on the draft plan.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
In Finland, depression is the leading individual cause of both extended sick leave and disability pensions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026
This is the most important line in your letter: “My financial adviser is particularly concerned about the parents being left with virtually no assets beyond their pensions and Social Security.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
And some of them are old and crumbling, back all the way to the Civil War, pensions for the last remaining widows on the Union side.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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 following year, four years after the explosion, he was pensioned out of the army and started a university degree in psychology.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2021
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
A horse is pensioned when it is no longer available for breeding.
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
With this eloquent plea, Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel last year won over reluctant Congressmen to his plan for pensioning off India's princes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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No European nation thinks of pensioning an ex-soldier simply because he was drafted to fight for his country.
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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I don't hear any of them speak of endowing a home for decrepit wash-ladies or pensioning off their aged grandmothers.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
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