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Italy gains pension reforms approval
[16: 45 CEST 12-10] ITALY - The Italian government has announced it will insert a welfare package, which includes pensions reforms, into the 2008 budget measures.
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Rümmeli knew of Swissfirst merger
[16:45 CEST 11-10] SWITZERLAND – A confidentiality agreement has surfaced suggesting Roland Rümmeli, former investment head of the Siemens Switzerland pension fund, had insider knowledge of a merger between Swissfirst and Bellevue.
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Romanian 2nd pillar gains new provider
ROMANIA – Bucharest-based Bancpost bank has launched a new division called its Bancpost Fond De Pensii, targeting Romania's new mandatory second pillar market.
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Too early for mandatory second pillar - ÖPAG
[16:00 CEST 11-10] AUSTRIA – Introducing mandatory second pillar pensions in Austria is 'unrealistic' at present, according to Johannes Ziegelbecker, director at the €1.9bn multi-employer Pensionskasse ÖPAG.
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Hermes brands German law 'counterproductive'
[17:00 CEST 09-10] GERMANY – Hermes, the BT pension fund-owned asset manager, has warned planned German legislation to curb co-operation between investors could weaken corporate governance standards.
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EC amends mobile pensions rights directive
[16:40 CEST 09-10] EUROPE – The European Commission has adopted an amended proposal to reduce obstacles to workers' mobility across the European Union, which gives them better preservation of supplementary pension rights.
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Irish pensions eye 'Netherlands-style' schemes
[14:15 CEST 09-10] IRELAND – The Irish Association of Pensions Funds (IAPF) is calling on the government to encourage a growth of industry-wide pension arrangements similar to that seen in the Netherlands.
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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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Special Report
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.
