As a follow up to the meeting of AEIP with DG FISMA’s Asset Management Unit on 30 November, AEIP’s Statement makes a concise overview of the points brought forward, with the aim to assist the EU policy regulators to better understand the particular characteristics of IORPs but to also address these concerns in their future legislative work. Overall, the statement of AEIP underlines that IORPs are pension institutions with a social purpose, managed jointly by social partners, that provide financial services, so they should not be treated as purely financial service providers. Since most IORPs in the EU are small ...

As a project partner of the Information Sharing Agreement (ISA) project, AEIP is organizing an online event on 10th February from 14:00 to 15:30 to disseminate its result. In fact, the webinar constitutes the final step of the project, where partners will present the guidelines they developed in the past years to facilitate the regular mobility of workers across EU countries. The ISA project started in 2018 with the aim of promoting and reinforcing transnational cooperation between authorities involved in the posting of workers in the construction sector. For registrations and programme please see here ...

We are happy to announce AEIP’s participation as honorary partner in the 2nd Occupational Retirement Provision Forum of HUIORP with the title ‘The next day in Occupational Insurance: challenges and development prospects’.  The conference aims to give a good overview of the current developments at national, EU and international level regarding IORPs as well as to highlight the significant role of the 2nd pillar from a social and financial perspective. Importantly, the event seeks to discuss the benefits and added value that IORPs can bring to society as well as to local and European economy, by ensuring an adequate retirement ...

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AEIP is delighted to invite you to join the G7 Pensions Global Forum organised by the World Pensions Council (WPC) in cooperation with AEIP. The event will be bringing together policy thinkers and institutional asset owners & board members from the US, the UK and other G7 nations + Australia, China and the European Union. This high-level digital event will be held 14 – 16 December @ 8.30 am – 12.30 GMT, daily / (9.30 am – 1.30 pm CET). Presentations & debates will focus on pension/retirement reform in Europe and the UK, ESG & deep data, LT investment incl. infrastructure & other private assets, the evolving corporate governance responsibilities of institutional investors, President-elect Joe Biden’s likely regulatory reforms ...

On 27th November AEIP provided its contribution to the ongoing consultation of the European Commission on the new Action Plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights, expected in 2021. Since the onset of the process in 2016, our organization has always supported the European Pillar of Social Rights, as we see it as an excellent opportunity for the enhancement of social rights across the EU. Building on what we have observed over these years, we believe that it is now time for the European Commission, in accordance to Member States, to guarantee that the monitoring of social progress ...

AEIP, in collaboration with other organizations that are part of the European Alliance for Mental Health submitted a joint contribution on the road map of the new EU forthcoming health and safety strategic framework (2021-2027). The submission highlights that the upcoming strategy should include actions to prevent and tackle mental health ...

On 20 October AEIP provided its input to the European Commission’s open consultation on the review of the Solvency II Directive. In its input AEIP stressed that any new measure to strengthen the solvency capital requirement should provide smoothing mechanisms applicable by law. In addition, AEIP called for the introduction of long-term volatility use which smooths out excess volatility over a longer period of time. As representative of not-for-profit insurers, the text invites the Commission to consider the specific governance of paritarian bodies as well as the exclusive use of surpluses for the benefit of policyholders. Finally, AEIP stressed that ...

AEIP is partner association to this year’s European Investors Day organized by l’AGEFI. The 2020 edition focuses on the topic: ‘Financial, extra-financial and tail risks: will professional investors shift their approach to better protect their portfolios?’ In view of the current pandemic and the challenges posed for financial actors, the event aims to analyse the impact of covid-19 on the European economies as well as the role of institutional investors. AEIP’s Secretary General, Bruno Gabellieri will participate as a speaker in the panel on: The impact of the crisis on the organisation of work by institutional investors and on their ...

AEIP responded to the joint consultation of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) regarding the development of Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) for the ESG disclosures Regulation. AEIP has welcomed the opportunity to provide input and gave its feedback on a series of points. We appreciate the action of the ESAs to highlight to the European Commission the extremely tight implementation deadline, since we are concerned that our members will not be able to achieve compliance with the SFDR within the timespan between the adoption of the Regulatory Technical Timeline and the 11 of March 2021. At the same time, we believe ...