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TPR cautions on pension buyouts
[16:00 CEST 12-09] UK - The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has warned although pension buyouts are an acceptable way for companies to transfer pension liabilities, employers should not consider it a way to abandon their schemes.
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Trustees must interpret a Type A event - TPR
UK – Pension fund trustees need to be less restrictive in their interpretation of what could constitutes a Type A corporate event on a pension scheme’s funding, suggests ‘clearance’ guidance issued by The Pensions Regulator (TPR).
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Pensions sector critical of tax-deductibility cap
[12:45 CEST 11-09] NETHERLANDS - The Dutch pensions sector has criticised the leaked cabinet plan to limit the tax-deductibility of pension contributions for higher incomes.
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VB to set up separate pension commission
[11:00 CEST 11-09] NETHERLANDS – The Dutch organisation for industry-wide pension funds, VB plans to establish a pension commission focusing on the export of the Dutch pension system.
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Czech welfare tax could go to voluntary funds
[14:30 CEST 10-09] CZECH REPUBLIC - Labour and Social Affairs Minister Petr Necas is seeking pension reforms which would allow employees to re-direct part of their national insurance contributions into voluntary pension funds.
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Regulators to head up Holland Financial Centre
[12:30 CEST 07-09] NETHERLANDS - The new Holland Financial Centre has appointed Akkie Lansberg as its chief executive officer and another member of the existing supervisory team as her deputy.
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Switzerland paves way for Publica’s DC switch
SWITZERLAND – The Swiss government has sanctioned the inclusion of 105 employers into Publica, the CHF33bn (€20bn) pension fund for federal employees - clearing the way for the scheme’s switch from defined benefit to defined contribution next year.
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The case for buyouts
The underlying conditions for corporate buyouts have never been better, but as David White argues, take-up still remains relatively modest
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VB issues warning on Dutch VAT (amended)
[14:00 CEST 05-09] NETHERLANDS – The Dutch association of industry wide pension funds, VB has said the Dutch government should stop charging pension funds tax on the use of investment management services.
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Partial passport smacks of timidity
Sheila Nicoll welcomes the European Commission’s response to UCITS III but argues it could have gone further
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Technology no longer isolated
Pension funds are dealing with the need for up to date systems to cope with enhanced compliance, investment and member communication demands. Rachel Fixsen reports
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Bulgaria’s new pensions landscape: looking over the horizon
Although now freer to invest, Bulgaria’s pension system struggles against frequent legislative changes, a black economy and corruption, writes George Coats
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Regulation versus self regulation
IPE asked three pension representatives – in Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK – the same question: ‘Are pension benefit protection schemes a necessary evil?’ Here are their answers:
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Solvency II nears maturity
International ambitions for Solvency II emerge as reforms for capital adequacy take shape, writes Jeremy Woolfe
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Scandal-hit PZU gets new CEO
[16:45 CEST 04-09] POLAND – Agata Rowinska has today been appointed by the Treasury as new chief executive to the Polish insurance giant PZU.
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Call for Denmark’s SPSS to be scrapped
[12:00 CEST 29-08] DENMARK - The Danish government’s decision to carry on suspending payments into the Special Pensions Savings Programme does not go far enough and the scheme should be scrapped completely, according to the Danish Insurance Association.
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Liechtenstein complications with Swiss fund
[16:30 CEST 28-08] LIECHTENSTEIN/SWITZERLAND – The Swiss senate has raised enquiries about the linkage of Liechtenstein’s second pillar pension schemes to the Swiss pension protection fund.
