Insurers 'campaigning' for Solvency II rules for schemes

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European insurance firms are "campaigning" for pension funds' capital requirements to be regulated more like insurers to generate increased business for the insurance sector, a leading MEP says.

European Parliament economic and monetary affairs committee chair Sharon Bowles told a European Commission hearing yesterday plans to revise a directive for pension scheme to transpose Pillar I of ...

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