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Features
Towards 'social Europe'
Bruno Gabellieri believes that many of the problems of compatibility of Europe’s social protection systems could be resolved, if not at a stroke, at least without the need for complex new legislation – specifically the proposed European pensions directive. The building blocks are already there, he says. They are the ...
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Globalists take it with them
Until 20 years ago, expatriates were a relatively rare species. Expatriates were transferred abroad mostly to provide particular technical or management skills that were not locally available. Along with the international transfer usually came a generous reward package. Times have changed. Most multinationals nowadays employ sizeable mobile employee populations. With ...
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How Shell spreads the gospel
The Shell International group has an impressive pedigree and scale when it comes to pensions provision for its 90,000 employees across the globe. To put this into context, at the end of 2000, the group had pension assets of around $50bn (E51bn). There are in excess of 40 funded schemes ...
