Solvency II

Pension schemes' accrued liabilities could have different rules from more stringent Solvency II-style capital requirements, a leading EU policy maker has hinted.

European insurance firms are "campaigning" for pension funds' capital requirements to be regulated more like insurers to generate increased business for the insurance sector, a leading MEP says.

European insurance firms are "campaigning" for pension funds' capital requirements to be regulated more like insurers to generate increased business for the insurance sector, a leading MEP says.

Pension funds should not face the ‘exact same rules' as insurance companies under Solvency II but must be open to change, European Commissioner Michel Barnier says.

National Association of Pension Funds chairman Mark Hyde Harrison has warned the European Commission that imposing Solvency II on pension funds could shut off the economic recovery.

Somewhere in Europe a small forest has been felled to keep up with EIOPA's insatiable demand for more paper as it produced yet another volume on the proposed new IORPS directive this week.

Jack Jones reports on Europe's plans for UK pensions

Jonathan Stapleton returns from Rome

UK schemes will need to share the cost of risk modelling if Solvency II-type regulations are applied to the pensions industry, experts argue.

The European Commission will not "copy and paste" Solvency II laws into a fresh occupational pension scheme directive, the architect of the IORP review says.