Gilles Pouzin
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Proving FRR's credentials
Almost five years after its creation, the French Fonds de reserve des retraites (FRR) has experienced only one full real year of financial management, in 2005. Let’s remind a brief history of the FRR. France, like many others, has to face a retirement problem with its existing system being unable ...
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France looks to the world
The recent creation of CCR Actions shows just how things are changing in the French money management industry. CCR is the French subsidiary of Commerzbank. CCR Gestion manages Ffr39bn($6.5bn) but is overweight in fixed-income and money market products, which are generally declining. It needed to develop its equities business and ...
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France: Equities appeal to French investors
French savers are changing their attitude towards risk and long-term investments. The latest survey by Europerformance, which tracks French pooled fund flows and performances, shows that the money market funds haemorrhage continued during the first quarter of 1997. For the first time, reallocation of assets toward equity funds is significant.French ...
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The tangled birth of the French pension fund system
The new law has passed most legal hurdles, but is the demand really there? Gilles Pouzin reportsSocial unrest has not stopped the introduction of France’s new private retirement system, but the new law has not yet won its battle either. After its second parliamentary approval on February 20, the pension ...
