IPE's France Coverage – Page 21
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Country Report
France: The search for yield
Richard Bruyère presents the results of Image & Finance’s 12th annual research covering the institutional market
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And yet another pension reform
‘Never postpone what you can do now’ is probably one of the most common-sense rules the French endeavour to follow.
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NewsReturn of 10.5% at France's FRR offsets poor results of 2011
FRANCE – Assets under management at Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites climb to €36.6bn.
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NewsCOR sounds alarm over first-pillar pension funding in France
FRANCE – Country will need 1% of GDP to sustain public system without further reform, organisation says.
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France: Pensions on the move
With no domestic IORP-compatible regime and with Solvency II looming, two of France’s supplementary pension providers are looking to move their domicile. Cécile Sourbes assesses the pros and cons of their plans
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France: Hope beyond the figures
Alain Lemoine assesses some important implications for pensions and institutional investment in an election campaign notable otherwise for its silence on retirement issues
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France: On track for change
“You become responsible forever for what you have tamed,” the French writer Antoine de Saint Exupéry once wrote. This maxim might describe the team’s mindset at the French €5.9bn public pension fund IRCANTEC, as it approaches this spring a pivotal moment in its investment lifetime. After 63 years of existence, ...
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France: Paradigm shift
Richard Bruyère comments on a difficult year for the French institutional market
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France: Life after downgrade
Gail Moss tests the institutional investment waters after January’s S&P downgrade and ahead of Solvency II
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Special Report
France: The impact of a shorter horizon
Alain Lemoine makes a gloomy assessment of the wider impact on French pensions reform and funding of the decision to drawdown on FRR
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Special Report
France: Internalising investment
France’s Fonds stratégique d’investissement plans to increase its regional diversification in 2011 and establish a capital investment fund in Alsace. Stuart Todd assesses these and other goals
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France: Continental drift
Richard Bruyère presents the results of the tenth annual I&F survey of the institutional marketplace in France
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France: Diversity embraced
Christine Senior reports on the shift away from sovereign debt as French insurers seek yield and reduce risk
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France: Learning the lessons of crisis
Jean-Pierre Grimaud discusses the importance of stability for the investment industry
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France: How do you spell ‘engagement’?
Dominique Blanc and Samer Hobeika discuss the French approach to shareholder engagement
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France: The company and retirement
Nora Ouidir discusses corporate approaches to retirement and human resource issues in France
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France: Same game, new playing field
Legislation passed late in 2010 completely changed the FRR’s purpose and liability stream. Martin Steward spoke with its CIO about the consequent re-tooling of its investment strategy
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FeaturesFrance: Retirement age is main target for reform
Nina Roehrbein finds the French government rejecting structural change to the pensions system in favour of modifying parameters such as retirement age and length of service
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Proposed reforms will not make French pensions sustainable
FRANCE - A French government minister has conceded that sustainable funding for its current pension system “is not possible”. The admission comes after simulations exposed funding shortfalls facing the country’s pension system, despite proposed reforms.
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FRR assets grow 25% in 12 months
FRANCE – Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR), France’s national pension reserve, has seen its strong growth of 2009 continue into the first quarter of 2010, posting a return of 2.6% for the three-month period.
