All articles by Blake Evans-Pritchard – Page 2
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European fund body EFAMA looking for new head
EUROPE – The European Fund and Asset Management Association is looking to hire a new director general to take over from Steffen Matthias when he retires.
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MEPs to write to Commission over directive
EUROPE - Two MEPs are to confront the European Commission over the failure by member states to properly implement the EU directive on occupational pensions once the September 23 deadline has passed.
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Mounting concerns over workforce size
The EU issued some worrying population projections for the next 50 years, with a view to updating pension expenditure forecasts in the EU25. Also, the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) told the Commission that its push to eliminate tax discrimination of pension funds was moving ahead too slowly. The ...
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All-embracing reforms
Following the launch of his green paper on ageing, commissioner Spidla told reporters on 18 March that Europe’s falling birth rate and longer life expectancy is not just about older working populations and pension reform, but affects “almost every aspect of our lives”. Pension reform is not explicitly dealt with ...
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Number one priority
Vladimir Spidla, the EU’s social affairs commissioner, is optimistic when he thinks ahead to tackling Europe’s looming pension crisis. As former minister of labour and social affairs in the Czech Republic, and subsequently the country’s premier, he has considerable experience of state pension reform – and he refuses to see ...
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Taking centre stage in Europe
With the new year, the rewriting of the rules governing the single currency takes centre stage in the pension debate, with a number of member states clamouring that they should be given more time to get their public pension systems in order. Also, the European Parliamentary Pension Forum (EPPF), initially ...
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EFR calls for pan-European pensions approach
BELGIUM - A group of Europe's leading banking and insurance companies is calling for a new common structure for pension products sold anywhere in the EU, in the hope that this will lead to convergence of national pension systems.
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European banks urge shift from PAYG
BELGIUM - Governments should urgently take steps to reduce the costs of funding public pensions – with a shift away from pay-as-you-go, the European Banking Federation says.
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European trade unions demand pensions recognition
Public service trade unions have outlined their priorities for pension reform in Europe, saying that pension schemes are "one of the pillars on which the social future of Europe will be built". They are unhappy that so little consideration is being given to their concerns in the ongoing pension debate. ...
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Industry round table calls for lead supervisor
BELGIUM - A group of Europe's leading banking and insurance companies is calling on the European Commission to advance pan-European co-operation between national asset management regulators, by establishing a lead supervisor that would act as a single point of contact for all reporting schemes.
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