Perhaps unsurprisingly, the overwhelming majority of respondents answered this question with a resounding ‘no'.
Buzz respondents were not in any way convinced that solvency requirements from Europe are dead and buried; just under 60% thought the requirements will be back in one form or another.
After the IORP debacle, Jonathan Stapleton asks if more European regs are appropriate
Jack Jones looks at the jubilant reaction from the UK to the news that the European Commission is shelving plans to impose stringent solvency requirements on schemes
The European Commission (EC) has dropped plans to include solvency requirements in an overhauled pensions directive to be presented this autumn.
Pensions minister Steve Webb has urged the European Commission to scrap its Solvency II-style proposals for pensions after official figures estimated they would cost UK schemes £450bn.
Jack Jones looks at the response the European Commission’s green paper on financing growth
The European Commission is exploring ways in which pension schemes can be encouraged to finance long-term investment in the European economy.
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority has conceded that more impact studies will be necessary before overhauling the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision directive.