France

PRI in Person

France urges more ESG action

“It’s time to act,” said Bruno Le Maire, France’s Minister of the Economy and Finance in the opening keynote speech at PRI in Person in Paris in a speech, which underscored with a sense of urgency that the financial world is not doing enough to meet today’s ESG challenges.

Sarah RundellSeptember 11, 2019

Asset Allocation

A strict Régime

Tight controls dictate strategy at the French public service pension scheme – including a commitment to socially responsible investing – but diversification options have increased.

Sarah RundellApril 24, 2017

INSEAD 2017

European risk premium justified

There is a European risk premium investors can access, the executive director of the Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites said at the opening of the Fiduciary Investors Symposium, at INSEAD.

Amanda WhiteApril 3, 2017

Uncategorised posts

Pension funds reject EU financial transaction tax

When the European Commission announced plans on February 14 to introduce a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) by the start of 2014, it planted a bomb under Europe’s pension funds. That is not, of course, the view of Algirdas Šemeta (pictured below right), the EU’s commissioner for taxation. He says the proposed tax is “unquestionably fair […]

Richard TomlinsonMarch 8, 2013