Pension Fund

Definitions: Pension Fund

Pension Fund

Noun

1. A fund reserved to pay workers' pensions.

2. A financial institution that collects regular contributions from employers to provide retirement income for employees.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Finance

Insurance

Labor

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Pension Fund

Pension Fund Benefit Concert (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Nelson's Directory of Pension Fund Consultants, 1999 (reference)

• Outlasting marble and brass : the history of the Church Pension Fund (reference)

• Pension Fund Capitalism (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies) (reference)

• Pension Fund Investment Management, 2nd Edition (reference)

• Social Investments and the Law: The Case for Alternative Investments (Studies in Pension Fund Investments, 3) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Directory Of Pension Fund Consultants Package (reference)

• Canadian Pension Fund Investment Directory (reference)

• Wyatt Pooled Pension Fund Survey (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Gala Concert for the Benefit of the Pension Fund (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

This growth occurred as a direct result of general economic reforms, pension fund reform, and the reopening of the life insurance industry to new investment. (references)

As commented on earlier, the indicators show that the insurance services with the most potential are the ART (Workers Accident Insurance) and life insurance, which includes retirement and pension fund (AFJP) insurance. (references)

Those areas which show the largest growth for next year are those related to life insurance including retirement and pension fund (AFJP) insurance, work-related accident Insurance (ART), motor vehicles, credit, and specialized forms of insurance, especially that for agriculture (in the opinion of the trade association of foreign insurers). (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

Minority shareholder Lukoil-Garant, a pension fund that owns 15 percent of TV-6, won a claim in the Moscow Arbitration Court to liquidate TV-6's parent company, which is 75 percent owned by the oligarch, Kremlin critic, and exiled businessman, Boris Berezovskiy. (references)

Economic History

El Salvador

Bidding on state assets in the telecommunications, banking, pension fund and power generation and distributions sectors was open to foreign interests from the outset and led to outcomes generally accepted as fair. (references)

Australia

This compulsory defined-contribution pension fund differs significantly from the U.S. Social Security system since it is privately-run and firms and their employees choose which investment company or companies will administer the funds. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

Brigadier General Mario Mamerto Hernandez Ponce and Colonel Alfonso Ruiz Alvarez, in particular, face charges of fraud and misappropriation of funds belonging to the military pension fund. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

Also, contrary to the law, the state pension fund unilaterally and improperly denied some pension applications from ethnic Serbs. (references)

Political Economy

SAUDI ARABIA

In 1999, SAMA managed foreign assets of roughly $54 billion and an estimated $29 billion for autonomous government institutions, including the Saudi Pension Fund, the Saudi Fund for Development, and the General Organization for Social Insurance. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

The most important taxes include value added tax (VAT) and import VAT (20 percent -- calculated on the difference between the VAT collected by a seller from its customers and the VAT paid to suppliers), corporate profit tax ( 30 percent), a progress personal income tax based on an employee's income (up to 40 percent), payroll taxes paid by employers to the Social Insurance Fund and Pension Fund, (37.5 percent of the payroll), excise taxes (up to 300 percent); and import-export duties. (references)

Hungary

The banking system, along with the capital market, the insurance and pension fund markets, is controlled by one authority: the State Supervision of Financial Organizations, created by the merger of three supervisory bodies in April 2000. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "pension fund": employee pension fund. Additional references.

Danish

pensionskasse (superannuation fund), pensionsfond (provident fund, retirement fund). (various references)

Dutch

pensioenfonds (superannuation fund), mutual fund (mutual fund), Fonds voor onderling hulpbetoon (provident fund, retirement fund). (various references)

Finnish

eläkesäätiö (self-administered pension scheme, superannuation fund), amerikkalainen eläkerahasto (mutual fund). (various references)

French

Institutions de prévoyance, fonds de retraite, fonds de pension, caisse de retraite (Old Age Pensions Fund), caisse de pension. (various references)

German

Pensionskasse (provident fund, retirement fund, superannuation fund), Pensionsfonds (provident fund, retirement fund), Vorsorgeeinrichtungen, Versorgungsträger (provident fund, retirement fund), Versorgungsfonds (provident fund, retirement fund), Mutual-Fund (mutual fund). (various references)

Greek 

ταμείο συντάξεων. (various references)

Italian

Istituzioni di previdenza, fondo pensione (provident fund, retirement fund), fondo di pensione (provident fund, retirement fund, thrift savings plan), fondo comune di pensione (mutual fund), fondo comune (kitty, mutual fund), cassa previdenza aziendale (superannuation fund), cassa pensioni. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

年金基金 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ね�"き�"きき�". (various references)

Pig Latin

ensionpay undfay

Portuguese

fundo de pensão (provident fund, retirement fund), caixa de pensões (superannuation fund). (various references)

Spanish

fondo mutuo (mutual fund), fondo de pensiones, fondo de pensión (provident fund, retirement fund), caja de pensiones. (various references)

Swedish

pensionskassa (self-administered pension scheme, superannuation fund), pensionsfond. (various references)

Turkish

emekli sandığı (superannuation fund), emekli fonu. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: innuendos.

-3 letters: finespun, innuendo, unpinned, unpoised.

-4 letters: fondues, funnies, infused, pennons, pension, pinones, undines, unipods, unposed.

-5 letters: donsie, ennuis, fiends, finned, foined, fondue, fondus, founds, funned, fusion, indues, infuse, ninons, noised, nonuse, nudies, onside, opined, opines, pennis, pennon, pinned, pinons, poinds, poised, ponied, ponies, poufed, pounds, pseudo, puisne, punned, sendup, sinned, sniped, souped, spined.

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