All articles by Hugh Wheelan – Page 45
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German employees to lead the way
GERMANY - German workers may be able to force employers to implement hybrid DB/DC second pillar pension plans under forthcoming German pensions legislation
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FCPE shift
FRANCE - The marked shift into shares within France’s FCPE (Fonds Communs de Placement D’Entreprise) individual company savings plans, is under scrutiny following recent dips in the equity markets, according to Richard Deville, managing director of Watson Wyatt in Paris.
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Merlin to reappear as DG's assistant
EUROPE - One of the European Commission's prominent players in the recent draft directive launch will leave his post in the new year...
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APAM adjusts European focus
EUROPE - Allianz PIMCO Asset Management (APAM) is reshaping its European investment management business in a move it says will introduce best practice and avoid marketing conflicts across the continent.
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New manager system launched
SWITZERLAND - Felix Kottman, executive vice president of St Gallen based Swiss consultants Complementa, has launched managerselection.com - a new internet based data platform for pension funds, consultants and asset management companies.
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Bacon and Callan reach parting of ways
UK - consulting actuary firm Bacon & Woodrow and US consultants Callan Associates are set to unravel their global consultancy relationship.
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Cross-border sponsors
EU - Speaking at the Brussels press conference on the launch of the directive, European internal market commissioner Frits Bolkestein noted that ‘obligation’ was a difficult tack for the Commission to take with member states regarding pensions, when questioned about the directive in the light of Europe’s demographic problems.
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Something for everyone
EU - It was expected to be the final piece of the European financial services jigsaw. In time-honoured European tradition, though, it came as something of a shape-shifter … a little bit of everything for everybody.
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Belgium's silver fund gets green light
BELGIUM - The Belgian government has given the green light to the implementation of both the proposed ‘Silver Fund’ reserve and to the establishment of industry-wide pension funds.
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French company plans reach Senate
FRANCE - Legislation on France’s ‘épargne salariale’ – savings plans for company employees has passed to the senate after successfully clearing the country’s Assemblée Nationale, albeit after amendment.
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Directive hailed as 'revolutionary'
EU - The European Commission’s draft directive on supplementary pensions could be the precursor to cross border recruitment raids by pension funds on employees working in similar professions, according to Karel Stroobants, head of the Belgian Association of pension Funds.
