Global Pensions | 13 Aug 2010
UK - The National Association of Pension Funds is backing auto-enrolment and NEST in the main but says the finer details around scheme-based certification need clarification.
UK - Proposals to index private sector pension increases to the Consumer Price Index amount to a "stealth cut" on the average worker's retirement pot, unions have claimed.
UK - Chancellor George Osborne must abandon planned cuts to pension tax relief for high earners in the emergency Budget, the National Association of Pension Funds says.
UK - The National Association of Pension Funds has urged the government not to damage the UK’s savings culture by back peddling on pension reforms.
UK - A group of institutional investors has written to all FTSE350 chairmen urging them to reveal more detail about executives’ pensions.
UK - The National Association of Pension Funds has called on the occupational pensions industry to establish super trusts which it said would add 30% to members’ pension pots.
UK - Calculation of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) levy should be changed so schemes can rely on specific estimates for a number of years, a steering group recommended.
UK - Tax-relief restrictions should be scrapped and the government must issue more long-dated and index-linked gilts, the National Association of Pension Funds said.
UK - Financial services secretary Lord Myners has accused excessive bonuses of ruining British pension funds.
UK - The majority of pension funds want to see the government issue more long-dated and index-linked gilts, the National Association of Pensions Funds’ Annual Survey showed.
UK – Conservative Party plans to accelerate the increase in the state retirement age have been backed by senior industry figures.
EUROPE – The proposed Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive is in some respects “misguided” and would reduce investment returns and increase risk, the UK’s National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has claimed.
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