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Ageas, Emergo Wealth target first-wave PEPPs
However, interest is low as fee cap and mandatory advice requirements weigh in
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InterviewsPrivate equity remains a key building block for pension schemes
While allocations vary, pension funds value solid returns and private equity’s role as a diversifier. Funds use PE to gain both domestic and international exposure.
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Special ReportSpecial Report – Pan-European Personal Pensions
From March, the European Commission’s vision of a simple, cross-border savings product becomes a reality with the launch of the Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP). EU citizens will for the first time be able to channel savings into a long-term third-pillar product that is cost effective, simple and portable across borders.
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Country ReportPortugal: Pension funds navigate uncertain times
Schemes are employing defensive measures to protect against portfolio risk
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Special ReportClass actions: Is Europe catching up with the US?
Europe’s institutional investors are latching on to the rewards of joining class actions against investee companies. Many of these are securities lawsuits, pursued when a publicly listed company has not properly disclosed or has misrepresented significant information, affecting the share price when the truth emerges. But so far, the vast majority of these have been in the US. In 2022, nearly $4.9bn (€4.6bn) was recovered in the US courts, according to Institutional Shareholder Services. So, what about class actions in Europe? “The US has had a class action system for over a hundred years that can be adopted for almost every cause of action, whereas the UK has only had class actions since 2015 and it is only available for competition cases,” says Harry McGowan, partner in the securities litigation department at law firm Stewarts.
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Special ReportShareholder class actions in Europe: the benefits and risks of participating
Litigation outside the United States, and in particular in Europe, has been on the rise since the US Supreme Court’s landmark 2010 decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank. In Morrison, the US Supreme Court ruled that “foreign” (non-US) investors cannot bring federal securities lawsuits in US courts to recover investment losses relating to foreign-issued securities traded on foreign exchanges (known as “F-cubed” claims). As former Justice Antonin Scalia explained, the concern was to prevent the US from becoming “the Shangri-La” of class-action litigation for lawyers representing those allegedly cheated in foreign securities markets. Although federal courts have since struggled to apply Morrison’s effect test consistently, it is clear, more than 10 years later, that the decision has had its intended effect.
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Opinion PiecesPEPP could be a slow-burn success if big asset managers help
When early pan-European pension concepts took shape, spearheaded by the late Koen de Ryck of Pragma Consulting and his groundbreaking 1996 report, there was a vision that cross-border pension provision by the likes of Unilever and Shell would provide a European model for DB pensions that would boost labour mobility, take workplace retirement provision to under-served markets and set standards for the future.
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IPE Awards: PPF wins European Pension Fund of the Year
Heribert Karch receives Outstanding Industry Contribution award
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Credit: A third way
Liam Kennedy outlines how Natixis, in partnership with insurers Ageas and CNP Assurance, has created an alternative to direct infrastructure lending and investment through funds
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Special ReportPEPP: Few players on the starting line
In March, the European Union’s Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) framework comes into effect, amid doubts about the take-up by providers
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NewsDutch court approves €1.3bn Fortis settlement
Nearly a decade after the Belgian-Dutch bancassurer collapsed, institutional investors have a result
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IPE Awards (Country & Regional): PensionDenmark wins for Denmark, Bosch for Germany
Construction Workers Pension Scheme wins for Ireland and the Environment Agency Pension Fund for the UK
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AEW Europe supports the development of Lola & Liza which expands on 1,100 sqm in Brussels
AEW Europe, as asset manager for Le Marquis, expands the Lola & Liza Group on 1,100 sqm at 1, Rue du Marquis in Brussels
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News'Misled' investors file class action against Fortis
GLOBAL – A new foundation, Investor Claims against Fortis, has started legal proceedings in the Netherlands against the former bancassurer Fortis for "misleading investors", which it claims led to combined losses of €2bn.
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NewsOur Man in Brussels: The Eurofi Forum's take on pension reform
EUROPE – The challenge of progressing EU pensions policy along the lines suggested in the European Commission's Green Paper may seem overwhelming.
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