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Features
Karas reports directive findings
Othmar Karas, European Parliament rapporteur for the directive on occupational pensions, has a difficult month ahead. On March 21 he presented his report on the IORP (Institution for Occupational Retirement Provision) proposals of the European Commission to the Committee for Economic and Monetary Affairs (EMAC). However, he must now sit ...
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Myners gets UK pensions industry talking
The name of Paul Myners has been on the lips of pensions professionals in the UK for some months now, and all the more so in the last few weeks since his review of institutional investment practice finally saw the light of day. When Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown ...
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Slowdown fears unnerve Europeans
It’s nervy times as markets get through the first quater of 2001. “People are unsure about earnings and are therefore holding on to stocks with proven profitability and defensive characteristics,” says Neill Brennan, head of quantitative research at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney in London. “Market nervousness has seen defensives bounce ...
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Japan 'close to real crisis'
Although economic and interest rate forecasting is a complex affair even in the good times, when asked about Japan many fund managers, both bond and equity, shiver visibly. For global investors, investing in Japan has long been accompanied by a fair element of fear. It was back in 1990 that ...
