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Blair: ‘Venomous’ Brown attempted blackmail to shelve Turner reforms

Global Pensions | 01 Sep 2010 | 15:56

UK - Gordon Brown has been accused of attempting to blackmail Tony Blair to drop Adair Turner’s revolutionary pension reform proposals.

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LPFA urges local authority schemes to raise retirement age

UK - The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) should increase its retirement age to 66 and limit pensionable pay to £75,000 ($115,000) a year, the London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) said in its submission to the Public Service Pensions Commission.

Global Pensions | 31 Aug 2010

Czech Finance Minister seeks overhauled pension programme by 2012

CZECH REPUBLIC - Czech Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek wants changes to the pension program, aimed at reducing the fiscal deficit and improving the country’s credit rating, to take effect by 2012.

Global Pensions | 24 Aug 2010

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Swedish AP system put to the test

Raquel Pichardo-Allison looks at what measures the five AP funds are using to deal with the impact of the global financial crisis and looks at the Swedish government's rumoured superfund plans

Crunch time for Japanese corporate DB schemes

Jenny Blinch travels to Tokyo and finds the corporate DB pensions industry reeling under the effects of the credit crunch

Canada goes global

Canadian pension funds were built to last and appear to be surviving the credit crisis. Elizabeth Pfeuti reports from Toronto on this and how increasing commitment to global assets and SRI will affect funds

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Pensions In-Depth: Video interview with Geoffrey Staines

Global Pensions | 08 Jul 2010 | secure | screening image

In an interview with GP's sister title Professional Pensions, Daily Mail & General Trust pensions director Geoffrey Staines talks to Jonathan Stapleton about communications, risk management and in-scheme resource.

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Are claims that the European Commission's alternative investment fund manager directive will cause an exodus of alternative managers from Europe overblown?

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