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Allianz unveils pan-European pension product
EUROPE – The German insurance company Allianz has revealed details of its pan-European pension product “European CompPension”.
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EU pension “maze” costs jobs – Aegon study
NETHERLANDS - The complexity of Europe's diverse national pension systems is driving up costs for multinationals, according to a survey by Aegon.
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Why asset allocation looks more attractive
The changing approach to asset allocation in Spain is assessed by Jose-Luis Masferrer who sees investors becoming more venturesome
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Why Portugal favours the domestic touch
While mergers have raised the bar in Portugal in terms of services provided by asset managers, it is still a market dominated by local players, as George Coats discovers
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Portugal: crisis or challenge?
Bernie Thomas argues that the lifting of investment restrictions on pension plans in Portugal should help to lift the economy out of the doldrums
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Incentives needed to boost second pillar
Portugal has to find better ways of channelling money into complementary schemes, writes Manuel de Vasconcelos Guimarães
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Curb pension funds’ hedge investment – Riksbank
SWEDEN – The Swedish central bank has suggested that pension funds’ hedge fund investments should be limited to protect pension savers’ investments.
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Winds of change drive innovation
The last bear market, new accounting rules and demographics are causing major shifts in client behaviours, argues Amin Rajan in the first of three articles on a new study
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One share, one vote
US research suggests that the one share, one vote principle could benefit corporate efficiency. Brussels is looking at the issue but will it take heed, asks Jeremy Woolf
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Building up pensions or pulling them down?
Europe’s financial supervisory authorities are in an invidious position with regard to occupational pensions. They are damned if they do tighten up on regulation of pensions schemes and damned if they do not. The collapse of the equity markets early in the new century clearly called for some tough action by regulators, but was the action too tough?
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Post-election pension blues
US pension fund industry players are bracing for the new Democratic Congress. Their lobbyists and attorneys had hoped to obtain some industry-friendly amendments to the new Pension Protection Act, signed last August by President George W Bush. But with the new Democratic majority in both the House and the Senate ...
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A sure hand on the tiller
It says much about a person when a pensions regulator heads the poll for this Award. This is what Anne Maher, chief executive at the Pensions Board in Ireland, has done. In fact, the end of her stint at the board coincides exactly with the IPE Awards, making the presentation ...
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UK: actuarial liability disclosure “meaningless”
UK – The Pensions Regulator says 83% of respondents to a consultation reckon the inclusion of actuarial liabilities within pension funds’ financial statements would be meaningless and costly.
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IPE AWARDS: Panel hails CEE 2nd-pillar
EUROPE – Second-pillar pensions have taken firm root in the central- and eastern European (CEE) countries of Estonia and Hungary but play only a small role in Croatia and virtually none in the Czech Republic, according to a panel of CEE experts.
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IPE AWARDS: More needed for pan-European funds
EUROPE – European pension fund representatives told the sixth annual IPE Awards seminar that more will need to be done for pan-European pension funds and cross-border activities to "grow and blossom".
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Pension directive cases launched today (Update)
EUROPE – Cases against three European Union member states over the pension fund directive have been launched today at the European Court of Justice, Internal Markets Commissioner Charlie McCreevy told the annual IPE Awards (Updates with more detail.)
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Finland’s Filatov to chair portability meeting
EUROPE - Tarja Filatov, Finland’s Minister of Labour, is to chair a meeting of European ministers on Friday that will discuss the Commission’s proposed directive on pensions portability.
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Belgian firms facing DC “nightmare”
BELGIUM – Belgian companies operating defined contribution (DC) schemes could soon face a financial and human resources “nightmare” in managing their ageing workforces, pension consultants say.
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UK government publishes new Pensions Bill
UK – The UK government has published its long-trailed Pensions Bill, including provisions to set up a “delivery authority” for the proposed national pensions accounts system.
