Portugal: equity risk for pensions

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PORTUGAL - The Portuguese banking system was "more than usually" exposed to equity price risk through employee pension funds, an IMF report showed.

The IMF's financial system stability assessment for Portugal recommended that further stress tests be performed on the banks, taking into account their linkages with their employee pension funds. ...

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