IPE's France Coverage – Page 22
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News
ERAFP award global equity and eurobond mandates
[16:50 CEST 16-04] FRANCE – ERAFP, the French civil service supplementary pension scheme, has awarded five new asset management mandates as part of a €2.4bn diversification strategy.
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Country ReportIt’s all a matter of timing
Market downturns and French pension reforms appear to co-incide. George Coats assesses the issues
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Country Report
Missed opportunity
Employee savings plans could have been the next big thing in French financial services but they have failed to take off. Alain Lemoine examines why
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Country Report
RAPF: allocating for the long term
The past year has been a busy one for RAFP, the €6.3bn French civil service supplementary pension scheme that was established in 2005
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Country Report
Flying a flag for the Perco
In 2004 Christel Bapt and Benoît Magnier saw an opening in the market. At the time they were both working for bfinance, but they decided to branch out on their own and formed Altedia Investment Consulting.
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Country Report
Forced to settle for a draw
The FRR has looked vulnerable for some time and the market downturn has not helped its cause. But it has fought off the immediate threats to its future, finds George Coats
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Country ReportA Napoleonic view of sovereign wealth
Last October president Nicolas Sarkozy surprised a European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg by announcing that France was to have a sovereign wealth fund. Subsequently, government officials spoke of a €100bn fund.
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Country ReportStart of consolidation wave?
The SGAM/CAAM merger is expected to trigger a shakeout among French asset managers. George Coats examines why it is happening and what the new landscape might look like
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Country Report
Coping with stress
Life insurers are France’s largest institutional investors. Alain Lemoine assesses how they are responding to the current crisis
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News
Smaller funds advised to claim tax refund
[16:20 CET 26-02] NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension funds are being advised to safeguard their rights to the refund of dividend withholding tax in European countries, as recent cases in both the Netherlands and France suggest taxes claimed in contravention of EU rules may also have been taken by governments elsewhere.
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News
French reserve fund loses a quarter
[16:20 CET 02-02] FRANCE - The Fonds de reserve pour les retraites (FRR) has revealed its assets decline by 24.8% during 2008.
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News
80% of French and Germans say pensions are at risk
EUROPE – More than 80% of French and Germans think that in 10-15 years their domestic pensions system will not be able to pay full benefits in the light of future demographic imbalances, according to a study by three leading European academics…
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Features
French pensions may go retail
A bill to reform company pensions in France could unintentionally create a retail pensions market. The market value of the scheme - currently predicted at anywhere between Ffr10 and 50 billion, which according to one analyst means “nobody knows” - could greatly increase as a result. This will depend on ...
