IPE's France Coverage – Page 22
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Country Report
France: Paradigm shift
Richard Bruyère comments on a difficult year for the French institutional market
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Country Report
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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Special Report
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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News
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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News
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.
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Country Report
France: Tactical moves
In a country of defined contribution schemes, French pensions have historically been risk averse. Nina Röhrbein reports on whether this trend in asset allocation is continuing
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Country ReportFrance: A double tax burden
Gilles Dureuil outlines taxation changes that will affect defined benefit pensions in France
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France: Showing the way on ESG
ERAFP and FRR are two of the most socially and environmentally aware pension funds in France, writes Nina Röhrbein
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France: Morning of a long day of mergers
Pirkko Juntunen assesses the changes in the French asset management landscape
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Country ReportFrance: Reforms on the starting line
Reform to the French social system is less politically unacceptable than it was a few years ago, writes Alain Lemoine
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