MPs grill EU officials on Solvency II

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EU officials were subject to bruising exchanges over the impact of Solvency II on UK pension funds during a work and pensions select committee hearing yesterday.

The Commission's head of unit for insurance and pensions in the directorate-general internal market and services Karel Van Hulle denied a solvency regime would be the death knell for defined benefi...

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