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Finnish to revisit SRI on pensions
[12:00 CEST 09-10] FINLAND - A group of Finnish pensions industry representatives is reviewing existing guidelines concerning socially responsible investments (SRI).
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MP seeks pensions rights for terminally-ill
[16:30 CEST 08-10] UK – MP for Preston Mark Hendrick is campaigning for reforms to give the terminally-ill access to their pensions at an earlier age.
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Personal Accounts Delivery Authority names chief
[16:15 CEST 08-10] UK – Tim Jones, a former chief executive of retail banking at the British NatWest bank, has been appointed as chief executive of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority, the government has announced today.
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Swiss seek higher financial profile
The nation of the world’s leading bankers wants to improve its image as a financial centre, Heather McKenzie discovers
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Can Anlagestiftungen still compete?
Swiss investment foundations have lost some of the tax advantages they previously enjoyed. Rachel Fixsen examines whether they can continue to find ways around this problem
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Prudent moves and small steps
Swiss pension funds find ways of getting round investment restrictions. Nina Röhrbein talks to the executives who can explain the loopholes in the law
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Putting the second pillar in place
It was a long and stony road to get the system up and running, and George Coats finds there is still a long way to go
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Liechtenstein finally linked to Swiss security fund
LIECHTENSTEIN/SWITZERLAND – Liechtenstein’s second pillar pension schemes can definitely link into the Swiss pension protection fund, the Swiss senate has decided.
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Mercer sees threat to PPF
[16:00 CEST 04-10] UK – The UK Pension Protection Fund (PPF) could find itself unable to finance a future risk exposure if legislation does not change, according to consultancy firm Mercer.
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One fifth of funds say 'it's too late' to save DB
[15:45 CEST 04-10] UK – Some 19% of pension funds responded to a question from the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) on what the British government could do to encourage defined benefit pension prevision, by saying it was "too late" to do anything.
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ABP to give paid premiums information
[15:30 CEST 04-10] NETHERLANDS - ABP, the €215bn civil service scheme, is considering a plan to regularly update its participants on the level of contributions they have paid.
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Conference told of IORP problems for CEE states
[14:00 CEST 04-10] HUNGARY – The EU pension directive is having more of a negative than a positive affect on the pension systems of central and eastern European (CEE) countries, a conference in London's Chatham House was told.
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Irish DB closure total triples
[16:00 CEST 03-10] IRELAND – The number of employers that have closed their defined benefit schemes has risen from 12% to 39% in the last five years, a new study commissioned by the Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF) reveals.
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Dutch speed pension build up - DNB
[12:00 CEST 03-10] NETHERLANDS - A large portion of Dutch employees have been able to speed up the build-up of their pension in the past five years, according to pensions regulator De Nederlandsche Bank.
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Irish pensions green paper 'imminent'
[17:00 CEST 02-10] IRELAND – The Irish government is preparing to launch its delayed green paper on pension reform and is now expected to unveil it within the month.
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DWP clarifies section 75, issues new consultation
[17:00 CEST 02-10] UK – The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has clarified that triggering employer debt is only intended to prevent scheme abandonment.
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Pensions bodies urge minister to refine indexation
[17:00 CEST 01-10] NETHERLANDS - The umbrella organisations for pension funds and insurers and the Labour Foundation (STAR) have accused Social Affairs’ minister Piet Hein Donner of being in too much of a hurry to develop the indexation label.
