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NYC pension funds in the hands of Al Gore - probably not very smart
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If I were a present or future New York City pensioner, this piece of news would definitively not cheer me up: Embattled city Comptroller John Liu has delivered a $16.56 million contract to the former vice president's environmentally-friendly in...
Presidential Trio meeting on active aging
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By Agata On 7th of June the cultural institutes of Denmark and Poland organised a meeting which aim was to present proposals of the Council Trio (Poland, Denmark and Cyprus) for the programs promoting active aging. 2012 is the European Year of Acti...
Pensions and One seat for European Parliament
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There has been much debate in Sweden in recent weeks over Prime Ministers Reinfeldt’s statement on retirement at an older age. The retirement age debate is, of course, directly linked to pensions, an area in which the EU plays only a supportive...
Strengthen public pension systems, say European trade unions
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Commission work-until-you-drop pensions White Paper ’doesn’t meet need of pensioners’, says ETUC, which argues for stronger public pensions More...
Wrong reports that “Brussels” will “force the closure of Britain’s remaining final salary pension schemes”
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“Europe” is not considering extending the Solvency II rules for the insurance industry to pension funds in a way that would force the closure of final salary pension schemes. Articles (14 Feb) in the Daily Express, the Daily Telegraph and...
Pensions Debate
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Here you can read a paper on the debate over private pensions in Poland, which I presented at the ESPAnet conference last weekend.
Compulsory Statutory Default Retirement Age of 65 Being Phased Out in the United Kingdom between April and October 2011
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EIROnline at Eurofound.com writes that the UK Government confirms abolition of default retirement age.The compulsory (statutory default) retirement age of 65 in the United Kingdom is being phased out between April and October of this year.
Pensions plan is a step in the right direction
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The UK’s coalition government has begun steps that may ultimately lead to the adoption of a primarily private pension system in Britain which would be capable of providing for retirement needs of British pensioners into the future as the nati...
French rally over pensions
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PARIS Thousands of people are gathering in the autumn sunshine on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris. They are here to fight President Sarkozy's pension reforms, which will see the retirement age increase from 60 to 62. There are...
Going Dutch or going bust
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Last week, three associations of Dutch pension funds' issued a quite startling warning to the Dutch Parliament: "If interest rates remain so low" they said "the the entire pensions system will be undermined”, adding that insurers could take a seri...
Pensions: Why not just let people continue to work, tax free?
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I was 37 this month, and whereas I may look it, or going by the rapidly expanding grey in my beard, may look like I’ve overshot it, I don’t feel it. That’s a common reaction. The fact is, due to better healthcare and diets we do not...
Waiting For Something To Turn Up: Europe’s Looming Pensions-based Sovereign Debt Crisis
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As Irwin Stelzer argued in a recent opinion article in the Wall Street Journal, Spain’s Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero seems to be an admirer of Charles Dickens’s character Mr. Micawber. When asked what he plans to do about Spa...
Janez Potocnic: "A pan-European pension fund for researchers" [supplemented]
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EU-Commissioner Janez Potocnik writes in his blog:"I’m delighted to announce that we have now launched the feasibility study for a pan-European pension fund for researchers. The stage has now being set for a thorough legal and technical analysis wh...
A pension as mobile as any researcher
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I’m delighted to announce that we have now launched the feasibility study for a pan-European pension fund for researchers. The stage has now being set for a thorough legal and technical analysis which I hope will lead to the promotion of this a...
Chaotic decision-making - Damned if we do, damned if we don't.
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European Parliament Vice-President Diana Wallis criticise the Parliament's Bureau's decision-making over the additional pension fund for MEPs. On record before for criticising the Bureau's working methods, they now question the wisdom of making a dec...
Containing population growth must become a global priority
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Despite the positive signals of demographic stabilisation in the developed world and China, global population keeps increasing at an unsustainable rate. Every year it grows by about 80 million, the equivalent of the German population. UN projections...
