EUROPE - Pension funds face a double hit from a proposed European-wide financial transactions tax, the Investment Management Association warns.
The European Commission has put forward a proposal today for a 0.1% tax on the exchange of shares and bonds and a 0.01% tax on derivative contracts that would raise about €57bn (£49bn) a year. T...
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