Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 657
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Features
'Avoid UK's mistakes'
In these days of heated debates on a European Constitution it seemed appropriate that the IPE/Royal Institute of International Affairs conference in London entitled: ‘The Future of European Pensions’, should commence with a conciliatory message from Alan Pickering, chairman of the European Federation for Retirement Provision (EFRP) that there are ...
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Parliament's knight in shining armour
How pleased are you that the pan-European pensions directive has finally become a reality after so many years and how much of a milestone do you think its introduction really is? You can imagine that I am very happy that the Council has been able to accept all the amendments ...
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The arrival of a 'miracle'
We have a saying in Germany: “miracles take a bit longer”. This saying applies perfectly to the directive. We had to wait a long time until it came into existence. It is an almost unbelievable miracle that the extremely diverse approaches to pension funding and supervisory regimes for occupational pension ...
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Roadmap for pan-European pensions
The European Directive concerning Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision which was adopted by the European Council in May bears a certain resemblance to the Human Genome. Scientists inform us that the Human Genome consists of large amounts of obsolete genetic material interspersed with essential functioning genes. So it is with ...
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Second pillar role recognised at last
A few days before its dissolution, the Belgian parliament approved a new law on supplementary pensions, enabling the government to realise one of its major objectives before the end of its four year term and the national elections. With this new legislation, the government wants deliberately – and this for ...
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Why Electrolux aims to go 'blue'
For a surprising number of multinationals operating in Europe, the question of their worldwide pension fund arrangements is less one of streamlining an existing structure and deciding where pan-European pension plans might fit into the equation, than actually figuring out what pension plans the corporation has in place globally and ...
