A Europe-wide coalition of employers, workers and pensions industry groups has called on the European Commission not to apply Solvency II rules to occupational pensions.
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The European Union internal markets commissioner Michael Barnier has moved to dispel concerns over how Solvency II-type rules will be applied to pensions.
European Commission plans to ensure pensions are adequate, safe and sustainable in the future will be overshadowed by the potential impact of applying Solvency II regulations to pensions, according to the National Association of Pension Funds.
Risk Management Solutions has announced the completion of a mortality risk analysis of the Dutch population which uses cause of improvement modelling for probabilistic longevity scenario generation.
Plans to apply Solvency II rules to pension schemes could threaten Europes long-term economic growth, unions, pension funds and business leaders have warned.
Prime Minister David Cameron has expressed his admiration for the Norwegian pension system, where the retirement age increases as life expectancy goes up, but insisted he does not want people to work until you drop.
An independent Scotland is likely to find the implicit constraints on its economic policy are even more restrictive than the explicit ones it faces as a full part of the UK, economists said today.
