This document provides you with key information about this Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP). It is not marketing material. The information is required by law to help you understand the nature, risks, costs, potential gains and losses of this personal pension product and to help you compare it with other PEPPs
The pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) is a voluntary personal pension scheme that offers EU citizens a new option to save for retirement. The PEPP pension scheme is complementary to existing national pension regimes.
PEPP only called into question by finance industry due to high costs for intermediaries 22 September 2020 – The latest draft of the Pan-European Personal Pension (PEPP) delegated (level 2) regulation was up for discussion last Friday during a broad and well-attended conference on the issue of PEPP and Financial Repression organised by consumer organisations
Last Wednesday, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced a 750 billion asset-purchase programme in response to the coronavirus outbreak, causing a boost of the euro against the dollar and the pound. This new temporary asset purchase programme of private and public sector securities counters the serious risks to the monetary policy transmission mechanism and the offset
This document represents the stylised version of BETTER FINANCE’s response to the EIOPA Public Consultation on implementing measures (level 2) for the pan-European Personal Pension (PEPP) Regulation. The actual response template can be found here. Executive Summary General approach and review BETTER FINANCE welcomes the holistic approach adopted by EIOPA and agrees with the working
BETTER FINANCE’s member organisation (and experts) from the Slovak Institute of Savings and Investments have developped a Technical Working Paper on key aspects for the PEPP: how to estimate pension projections (for the PEPP KID and Benefit Statement) and how to design the PEPP Benefit Statement so that it is useful and attractive for savers.
BETTER FINANCE published its Position Paper on the implementing measures (level 2) for the Pan-European Personal Pension (PEPP) product. These measures will be based on the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) submitted by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) to the European Commission following a period of public consultations. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PEPP Key Information
This document provides you with key information about this pan-European Personal pension Product (PEPP). It is not a marketing material. The information is required by law to help you understand the nature, risks, costs, potential gains and losses of this personal pension product and help you compare it with other PEPPs. This is not a
The overall objective of the Pan-European Personal Pensions (PEPP) product is to offer pension savers a viable alternative that embeds appropriate risk-reward calibrations, that transparent and cost efficient and that provides decent real long-term returns for old age. In short, the PEPP should represent “a quality label for EU personal pension products and increase trust
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