We would like to inform you that AEIP is an official supporter of AGEFI in their initiative to create the European Investors Days (EID) as a meeting place for professionals who are shaping the face of finance in Europe. The first EID will be organized, in partnership with Politico, in Brussels, at the Hôtel Steigenberger Wiltcher’s on 6th, June. This event will bring together the institutional investors’ community and private asset management players, as well as experts in public affairs and representatives from European institutions, in order to decrypt, together, the challenges relating to new regulations in Europe. L’AGEFI will ...
Paritarian institutions of social protection play an important social role in the EU economy, as they contribute to better adequacy for the beneficiaries of different social protection systems across Europe. Moreover, paritarian institutions of social protection are key institutional investors and contribute to fostering long-term investment and economic growth. In our position paper, we have underlined that AEIP supports the development of a taxonomy and the proposed steps to increase transparency on the integration of sustainability risks. We view the efforts of the European Commission in that direction as a necessary element for achieving the key objectives of the European ...
European Commission funds 3 year program with 1.7 million euro A consortium of experienced European pension stakeholders has taken up the challenge to carry out a European Commission action to develop the Pilot stage of a European Tracking Service on Pensions (ETS). The European Commission has called for the ‘development of web-based cross-border pension tracking services that help mobile workers follow their pension rights accrued in different Member States and pension schemes in the course of their career’. The 2.1 million euro project is funded both by the European Commission (1.7 million euro) and by the consortium partners. The project ...
The final seminar organised in the framework of the social partner project “Mental Health in Construction Work”, will take place in Brussels on 14th March. AEIP participated as the coordinator of the research activities and coordinated the elaboration of the final research report. The project was led by the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) and the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC) as the European social partners of the Construction sector and with which AEIP has an ongoing protocol of cooperation. The research action was aimed at getting a better understanding of the overall topic of Mental Health in ...
AEIP has published its research paper on the European Semester, analysing the Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs) related to pensions as well as healthcare systems. The current analysis of AEIP has a twofold aim: first, it is set to provide a comprehensive mapping of the Commission’s recommendations and their implementation across time and space. And secondly, it aims to give a concise picture of the reforms which took place at the national level as well as to provide a sound basis for a broad comparative exercise among the countries under study. For the full research paper of AEIP on the European ...
In light of the latest trilogue negotiations regarding the PEPP, AEIP has published its most recent position paper. In order to reflect the additionality of PEPP to existing national pension systems, Member States that wish so, should be free to maintain restrictions that are in conformity with the IORP II Directive. We would like to stress on the need for a sufficient flexibility given to MSs with regard to making the decision on the inclusion or exclusion of IORPs as eligible PEPP providers. AEIP is convinced that NCAs should be the ones giving the authorization to providers for the creation ...
AEIP and Pensions Europe have published a joint position paper calling for political action to relieve pension fund participants from unnecessary VAT burden for contracted management services. The full text of the press release is available here ...
AEIP’s representatives took part in the Workshop on pension funds statistics organized by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt on 10 October 2018. The workshop was the fourth meeting between the ECB, NCBs, NCAs, EIOPA, Eurostat, OECD and industry representatives, including AEIP. The meeting aimed at providing participants with an update on the work towards the implementation of the ECB Regulation on pension funds statistics , the convergence with EIOPA’s supervisory reporting and possible future use of these statistics. AEIP’s representatives from Mefop and Lombarid Odier provided presentations during the workshop ...
For the first time the paritarian institutions of the German and Austrian social partners of the construction industry – SOKA-BAU and BUAK– organised and hosted the Europe Day together. AEIP’s Vice President – Mr Jean-Louis Peyrude spoke in the first panel of the event on the added value of a strong social dialogue for the development of sustainable social protection policies. For more information on the event, please see the press release here. ...
