Solvency II

EIOPA's consultation could impose Solvency II requirements that would send the UK pension system into "limbo", according to Mercer.

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Andrew Short talks to the EU commissioner

The European Commission plans to adopt a "holistic balance sheet" approach to scheme funding rules which will treat sponsor covenants as assets, a consultation reveals.

The European Commission must make sure it does not "mix apples with oranges" and confuse the insurance industry with pension funds.

The Pensions Regulator and the NAPF have urged the EU commission to extend the Solvency II one-month consultation period to properly assess the 500-page document.

Solvency II requirements for defined benefit schemes will double the value of technical provisions required to fund liabilities, costing sponsors £500bn, employers warn.

Insurers have been given another year to become compliant with Solvency II, the Financial Services Authority announced today.

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Investors responding to the EC's green paper on corporate governance agree institutions are responsible for improving corporate governance in Europe. But in the first of a three-part series, Emma Cusworth finds they take exception to the EC's view investors...