All articles by Hugh Wheelan – Page 7
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Dutch PVK seeks comment on pension solvency
NETHERLANDS - The Dutch pensions and insurance regulator PVK has invited the country’s pension funds to comment on a new White Paper concerning pension fund solvency requirements.
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Belgium moves towards industry pensions
BELGIUM - The Belgian government has taken an important step closer to the introduction of industry-wide pension plans after the Vandenbroucke law passed its final hearing in the country’s Parliamentary Finance and Budget Commission.
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Change on the horizon
In matters of French pensions the adage plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose could often be employed in the past with an accompanying gallic shrug. Today the case is different. While France is not about to give up its beloved répartition (pay-as-you-go) pensions system for all the demographic ...
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All together to save the system
“We must save our pay-as-you-go system, and we must save it together,” declared French Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, in a rousing oratory to France’s economic and social council on February 3. The rhetoric will have been lapped up by the 300,000 plus protesters who had just taken to the streets ...
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Belgium in last gasp push on sector pensions law
The Belgium government is to make a last gasp push next week to try and introduce the long-overdue Vandenbroucke law on industry-wide pension plans before the country goes to the polls in May.
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Pension funds set up prototype long-term mandate
EUROPE - A group of Europe and North America’s largest and most innovative pension funds have joined forces to create a prototype investment mandate competition to spur asset managers into looking at how responsible investment and outperformance can be delivered to pension funds over the long-term.
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France formalises e13bn reserve fund outsourcing
FRANCE - The French government has set the ball rolling on one of the world’s largest institutional RFPs with the formal naming yesterday (February 6) of the executive committee that will administer the 13 billion euro French pensions reserve fund (Le fonds de réserve).
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Market deep in change
The current downturn in markets has presented Irish pension funds with what Nora Finn, chief executive of the Irish Association of Pension Funds (IAPF) calls the new ‘realism’. Parodying the new ‘investment paradigm’ phrase that was banded about liberally just a few years ago, Finn says the new realism means ...
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Pension booster
The PRSA (Personal Retirement Savings Account) is a new portable pension fund, akin to the UK stakeholder plan, through which the Irish government is seeking to boost pension provision amongst the Irish population from the current levels of around 50% up to 70%. Both employers and employees can contribute to ...
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Landmark Skandia pensions ruling set for April 3
EUROPE - A potentially landmark ruling from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the Skandia case looks set to be brought to a speedy conclusion with an Opinion to be made by the court on April 3, following a preliminary hearing yesterday in Strasbourg.
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Swiss in emergency review of occupational pensions
SWITZERLAND - The Swiss government has set in train one of the most far-reaching reviews of the country’s occupational retirement sector in response to public criticisms that the long-term health of the Swiss retirement system may be in serious danger.
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New pensions consultant enters UK market
UK - Chris Edge, the erstwhile founder of Pavillion Asset Management and a former head of sales and marketing at Royal London Asset Management is set to switch hats by launching a new investment consultant into the UK institutional market next month.
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Dutch scheme tenders for e300m eurozone debt brief
NETHERLANDS – Dutch investment consultant Fortunis has announced a new RFP for an e300m Eurozone debt mandate on behalf of a Dutch pension fund client...
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New European real-estate info service launched
EUROPE - Investment Property Databank (IPD) and Experian Business Strategies have launched a joint property information service in a bid to provide analysts with up-to-date and comprehensive information on European real estate investment.
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Irish property returns slide in 2002
IRELAND - Irish property returns continued to slide through 2002, according to the first full results for last year from Investment Property Databank (IPD).
