France Coverage
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NewsFrench dashboard to join European pension tracking service
The dashboard in France covers all pillars of the country’s pension system, with 42 pay-as-you go service providers and 100 private pension organisations on board
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NewsERAFP names 11 winners in multi-billion equities hiring spree
Amundi and BlackRock were among 11 winners in a European and Japanese equities hiring process by the French civil service pension scheme
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NewsFrance’s ERAFP chooses credit managers for €8bn in new mandates
Amundi, Ostrum and HSBC bag active mandates
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Opinion PiecesViewpoint: Macron’s reform paves way for development of French second- and third-pillar pension
The rationale of the reform is simple: the rising life expectancies combined with decreasing birth-rate have accelerated the aging of the French population
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Country ReportPensions in France - IPE Country Report
Fierce opposition from trade unions and a large part of the political spectrum did not manage to stop Emmanuel Macron’s plan to reform the French pension system. The new framework kicks in this month, and the long-term sustainability of public pensions is secure. However, French workers will have to work longer into their lives, and their standard of living will decline.
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Country ReportNew pension rules set to transform France
After much opposition, profound changes to the retirement system take effect this month
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Country ReportFrance moves ahead with innovative climate reporting rules
A new French law could compel companies to disclose their climate plans
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Country ReportFrance’s new pension product smashes through target
Assets managed by PER supplementary pension products could reach €200bn by 2026
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Special ReportFrance: Macron’s major pension reforms take effect
September sees the enactment of controversial retirement reforms passed by presidential decree earlier this year, bringing 42 occupational regimes together
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InterviewsPension funds on the record: The investors developing their own index methodologies
FRR and PUBLICA are among the growing number of European pension funds developing proprietary benchmarks to achieve their sustainability objectives
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NewsFrance’s lower house votes for mandatory Say on Climate
FIR, a French sustainable investment lobby group, says that only nine companies published climate resolutions so far out of 795 on the Euronext Paris stock exchange
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NewsFrench regulator questions managers’ approach to ESG data providers
Plus: New biodiversity credits initiative between UK and France
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NewsPension investors repeat demand to TotalEnergies: align emissions with Paris
The French energy firm refused to table a similar resolution at last year’s AGM, but investors have found a way to prevent this from happening again
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NewsMacron faces backlash as he bypasses parliamentary vote on pensions bill
The controversial pension reform proposed by Macron’s government seeks to merge France’s 42 separate pension schemes into a single, universal points-based system
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NewsSpanish insurer MAPFRE adds SRI approach to all asset managers’ strategies
“The idea is to grow distribution capacity in France and to increase our SRI capabilities,” says MAPFRE’s chief economist for investments
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NewsFrance's Af2i releases proposals and recommendations for long-term investment
The association is looking to promote a European standard for ESG data
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NewsMacron presses ahead with controversial pension reforms
The government will require companies to incentivise workers to stay at work beyond age 60 by improving the quality of their working lives
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NewsLow Countries’ COVID recovery funds contingent on pension reform
The Netherlands and Belgium must push through reforms to their pension systems to receive COVID recovery grants from Brussels
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NewsERAFP awards €1.2bn in SRI credit bond mandates
The scheme has awarded the active mandates to AXA Investment Managers and FundLogic
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InterviewsMirova’s Philippe Zaouati: realistically optimistic
Asset management CEOs tend to be a clever bunch, but there cannot be many who are familiar with the work of Antonio Gramsci, the 20th century Italian socialist philosopher.
