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Pension funds keep calm and carry on plugging gaps

July 12, 2016--Battle lines are being drawn over defined benefits liabilities

The Ministry of Information told Brits to "Keep Calm and Carry On" ahead of the so-called phoney war of 1939.

Exactly 77 years later, the Pensions Regulator broadcast the same message following Brexit. There is no crisis in defined benefit retirement schemes, it told the pensions industry.

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Source: FT.com


IMF-France : Selected Issues

July 12, 2016--Structural unemployment in France has long been elevated, and appears to have edged up further since the crisis. This reflects both demand and supply factors, including: high labor taxes, wage stickiness, a growing skill gap, hysteresis effects from the crisis years, a lengthy period of elevated economic uncertainty, inactivity traps created by the unemployment and welfare benefit systems, and demographic factors that have pushed up the labor force.

The cyclical recovery is projected to bring down the unemployment rate only slowly, and the NAIRU is estimated to remain above 8 percent over the medium term. We investigate the structural causes of unemployment and potential remedies.

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Source: IMF


Two new Amundi smart beta ETFs launched on Xetra

July 12, 2016--ETFs with a focus on momentum and earnings quality of European companies.
Two new equity index ETFs issued by Amundi have been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Tuesday.

Name: Amundi ETF MSCI Europe Quality Factor UCITS ETF
Asset class: equity index ETF
ISIN: FR0013140522
Total expense ratio: 0.23 percent
Distribution policy: accumulating
Benchmark: MSCI Europe Quality

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Source: Deutsche Börse Cash Market:


VanEck consolidates ETF and active business

July 11, 2016--US-based asset manager VanEck-which launched its first exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Europe last year-has restructured its European fund business under one team.

The ETFs and active strategies team will fall under Uwe Eberle, head of international business development and distribution.

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Source: Funds Europe


Revised securitisation framework with capital treatment for "simple, transparent and comparable" securitisations

July 11, 2016--The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today published an updated standard for the regulatory capital treatment of securitisation exposures.

By including the regulatory capital treatment for "simple, transparent and comparable" (STC) securitisations, this standard amends the Committee's 2014 capital standards for securitisations.

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view the Revisions to the securitisation framework

Source: BIS


Amendment of Exchange Offer Acceptance Condition

July 11, 2016--View press announcement.

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Source: Deutsche Börse


IMF-Italy : Selected Issues

July 11, 2016--Elevated levels of nonperforming loans (NPLs) are weighing on bank profitability in Italy. This paper analyzes the conditions under which Italian banks can earn sufficient profits to grow out of their asset quality problems, re-build capital buffers, and finance the real economy, taking account of continued pressures from high provisioning and operating costs and declining net interest margins from negative policy rates.

A bottom-up analysis of the 15 largest Italian banks suggests that restoring sustainable profitability depends heavily on the growth outlook.

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Source: IMF


Policy paper: Women in Finance Charter

July 11, 2016--On 22 March, Jayne-Anne Gadhia, CEO of Virgin Money, published her review into the representation of women in senior managerial positions in financial services.
On 11 July HM Treasury announced that 72 firms have signed the Women in Finance Charter.

These firms have committed to implement four key industry actions, as recommended in Jayne-Anne Gadhia's review into the representation of women in senior managerial positions in financial services. In early October this list will be updated with links to signatory firms' targets as published on their websites.

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view the Women In Finance Report-Empowering Productivity-Harnessing the Talents of Women in Financial Services

Source: HM Treasury


IMF-Euro Area Policies: Selected Issues

July 8, 2016--THE IMPACT OF WORKFORCE AGING ON EURO AREA
PRODUCTIVITY1
The euro area population has aged considerably over the past few decades, a process expected to accelerate in the years ahead. At the same time, labor productivity growth in the euro area has been sluggish, posing risks to long-term growth prospects.

This paper studies the effect of the aging of the workforce on labor productivity, identifies the main transmission channels, and examines what policies might mitigate the effects of aging. We find that workforce aging reduces growth in labor productivity, mainly through its negative effect on TFP growth. Projected workforce aging will reduce TFP growth by an average of 0.2 percentage points every year over the next two decades. A variety of policies can ameliorate this effect.

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Source: IMF


Euro Area At The Crossroads: No Time For Complacency

July 8, 2016--Euro area in recovery but medium-term outlook weak
Collective action needed for further integration; muddling through carries heavy risks

Priorities: more EU fiscal support, reforms to raise growth potential, a common deposit insurance, improve bank balance sheets
Recovery in the euro area has strengthened, but the medium-term outlook remains weak and is endangered by a lack of collective action to address common challenges. Members must rebuild faith in the monetary union, says the IMF in its latest review of the currency union.

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Source: IMF


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