IPE's EU Coverage – Page 51
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NewsEuropean Commission urges extension of working life to stave off crisis
Commission's head of social and demographic analysis urged an increased effective retirement age.
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Investors avoiding real estate, equities due to Solvency II uncertainty – Invesco
EUROPE – The uncertainty surrounding the ongoing Solvency II debate is putting many investors off real estate and equities, according to Invesco.
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2010 funding ratios derailed by volatility – Aon Hewitt
EUROPE – Funding ratios have fallen across Europe due to volatile bond markets, according to new figures from Aon Hewitt.
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EU ministers fail to address sanctions despite Hungary claim
EUROPE – The recent meeting of European Union finance ministers ended with no agreement on the treatment of countries with transitional excessive budget deficits arising from a pension reform.
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Funded first pillar raises CEE mobility questions
EUROPE – Non-accumulated pension assets from various first pillar pension systems might lead to problems for people wanting to buy an annuity, a representative of the Slovak ministry for social affairs has warned at a conference in Vienna.
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Asset Class ReportsValue traps
Michele Gambera uses UK equities to reveal how excluding or including companies with negative earnings skews the P/E ratio of the market
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Asset Class ReportsEuropean equities: Never out of style
Managing European equities has to be about avoiding style biases, finds Joseph Mariathasan. He speaks to five managers who have squeezed alpha from very different markets with very distinct strategies
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Nominal GDP swaps 'could be key to DC guarantee'
[16:20 CET 14-01] EUROPE – Officials at the Bank of Italy have been working on a proposal to create a public swap-based return guarantee for members of defined contribution funds.
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Asset Class ReportsCrowded out
One might imagine small-caps markets to be hives of alpha-generating inefficiency and anomaly – and yet Joseph Mariathasan finds that returns in Europe are dominated by beta
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Pension deficits underestimated by European firms
[16:55 CET 16-11] EUROPE – Over 30 major European firms have underestimated their pension obligations by more than 40%, according to research from AlphaValue.
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Ageing population costs to 'dwarf' recent crisis - EC
[16:55 CEST 15-10] EUROPE – European Commission officials have produced a report which claims the ability to meet public pensions liabilities is a higher long-term risk for governments than ever before and in most cases reform of member states’ pensions systems is desperately needed.
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IORPs should not 'over-react' to crisis
[13:00 CEST 26-06] EUROPE – The impact of the current economic crisis has resulted in closer scrutiny by many European supervisors of occupational pensions and the shared message appears to be pension funds should not over-react, the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) has said.
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NewsMEPs launch legal challenge over reforms
[17:10 CEST 16-06] EUROPE – Members of the ABSL voluntary pension fund for Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have launched a legal action against the European Parliament over changes to the pension scheme.
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Pensions to be 'unaffected' by GM Europe takeover
[16:00 CEST 02-06] EUROPE – Officials at GM Europe say their European pension schemes should be unaffected by the proposed takeover by a Canadian firm, although public figures are not available to deduce the extent of the car manufacturer’s European pensions liabilities.
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Pension reforms to lessen gov’t spending, initially
[15:30 CEST 11-05] EUROPE – Just as many governments are now trying to rectify potential future shortfalls in retirement income, the European Commission has found the anticipated higher costs on domestic budgets will be at their lowest among some countries over the next decade before rising again in later years.
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MEP reforms approved as EP votes against extra contributions
[16:30 CEST 23-04] EUROPE – Reforms to the voluntary pension fund for members of the European Parliament (MEPs) should allow the scheme to continue to pay benefits "for as long as necessary", and without the need for taxpayers to cover the actuarial deficit of €120m.
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Asset Class ReportsA nuclear winter?
Managers are working out when and how to position their portfolios to benefit from an eventual economic recovery,finds Joseph Mariathasan
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Funding not always beneficial
Ageing populations present problems for social security schemes around the world. Low birth levels and increasing life expectancy will lead over time to increased numbers of elderly people and fewer people of working age to support them. Most social security schemes operate on the pay-as-you-go principle, whereby contributions made by ...
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Blind dates for euro party players
France will. Spain and Portugal would love to. And the UK can’t decide. Jason Crosland reports on the arduous process in preparing to meet the monetary and fiscal demands of the euro
