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Two-thirds of construction business owners believe full recovery is still a year away(07/07/2010)
According to the latest research from Clifton Asset Management (CAM), 68 per cent of business owners say their retirement is further away now than it was a year ago. This compares to a figure of 77 per cent earlier this year, and 80 per cent six months ago. The main reasons given for delaying retirement are tougher trading and market conditions (55 per cent) and declining property and pension values (23 per cent). However exactly two-thirds of those surveyed said they believed that a full ... [more]
Retirement remains a pipe dream for many construction business owners(27/11/2009)
According to the latest quarterly survey of more than 1,000 construction businesses, carried out by Clifton Asset Management (CAM), 28 per cent of firms have cut jobs over the past six months, down from 34 per cent in the last survey. Business owners in the construction sector believe the worst of the recession may be over – but fear that it has another year or more still left to run. 12 per cent of owner-managers say they will need to reduce their payroll over the next six months, down two p... [more]
Construction business owners are not contributing to company pension schemes(23/06/2009)
According to the findings of the latest quarterly survey of more than 1,000 business owners carried out by Clifton Asset Management (CAM), fewer than a quarter are paying into a company pension scheme – while the vast majority shun the Enterprise Finance Guarantee. Retirement remains a distant prospect for more than three-quarters of construction business owners – although the rate at which they are shedding jobs may be stabilising. Meanwhile fewer than a third are operating a company pension... [more]
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