All articles by IPE staff – Page 48
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Features
Progress slow on Directive
The proposed pensions directive is the most important part of the EC plan for a single market for financial services by 2005, said Jean-Claude Thébault of the EC at the EFRP/NAPF conference inBrussels. Thébault noted that the signs of success were not very encouraging, pointing out that the mid-term point ...
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EIORP fails to progress
The EFRP proposal for a pan-European pension vehicle – the European Institute for Occupational Retirement Provision (EIORP), did not get through last week’s ECOFIN council meeting, tax expert Peter Schonewille said at the conference. “This was despite the active support for the proposal by the Commission by putting them in ...
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Friends' venture arm becomes ISIS Capital
UK - Friends Ivory & Sime Private Equity is to become ISIS Capital in a bid to make the subsidiary “distinctive” from its parent company....
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Robeco issues hedge fund backed bond
NETHERLANDS - Robeco Alternative Investments has launched the Robeco Protected Absolute Return (PAR) Note, with returns based on a basket of hedge funds – the first time such a bond with a principal guarantee has been issued for the Dutch market....
