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News & Events
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09-Apr-2008
OECD countries are committed to keeping their investment frontiers open to sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) as long as these funds invest for commercial, not political ends. That is the message in a letter from OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría to G7 Finance Ministers detailing a common OECD position on policies towards sovereign wealth funds.
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22-Feb-2008
OECD countries have agreed on further liberalisation commitments in the areas of insurance and private pensions. The OECD Code of Liberalisation of Current Invisible Operations has been amended to broaden the insurance obligations of the Code and introduce new obligations on private pensions, thereby establishing a new, high standard for cross-border trade in insurance and private pensions services.
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30-Jan-2008
After taking into consideration comments and updates received during the public consultation held between 26 June and 1 September 2007, the OECD will release `Good Practices on Financial Education relating to Private Pensions’ and a background report in 2008.
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29-Jan-2008
The public consultation of the draft text of the Guidelines on the Licensing of Pension Entities was closed on 5 October 2007. After consideration of the comments received by the IOPS and the OECD Working Party on Private Pensions, the results of the public consultation are now available.
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23-Jan-2008
After taking into consideration comments and updates received during the public consultation held between 26 June and 1 September 2007, the OECD will release `Good Practices for Enhanced Risk Awareness and Education on Insurance Issues’ and a background report in 2008.
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Events
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from 09-May-2007 to 11-May-2007
This conference discussed current topics in insurance regulation and supervision such as: financial management of large-scale disasters; strengthening of risk awareness and education on insurance issues; information disclosure on financial and insurance products; and development of the life insurance products, namely taxation.
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from 29-Mar-2007 to 05-Apr-2007
Is there a perfect pension scheme? Do people understand their pension systems?
A live online question and answer session on the issue of pension reform took place on Thursday 5 April.
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from 22-May-2007 to 23-May-2007
The Ninth Annual OECD-World Bank-IMF Global Bond Market Forum was held at the OECD in Paris. "Derivatives markets" were a major focus of the meeting, including perspectives on the use of derivatives by debt managers, foreign investor participation in domestic bond and derivatives markets, and the importance of derivatives for primary dealer operations.
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from 24-Apr-2007 to 26-Apr-2007
This Regional Workshop was held in Johannesburg, complementing the first annual OECD Forum on African Public Debt Management and Bond Markets which was held in Amsterdam in December 2006. Motivated by African countries, the workshop’s purpose was to disseminate the recommendations and conclusions from the OECD Forum to a wider audience of officials in Africa.
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from 26-Feb-2007 to 27-Feb-2007
Hyderabad, India, 26-27 February 2007. This conference, organised under the auspices of the OECD International Network on the Financial Management of Large Scale Catastrophes was hosted by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) of India, with the sponsorship of the Government of Japan and the General Insurance Corporation of India.
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from 06-Dec-2006 to 07-Dec-2006
The 16th OECD Global Forum on Public Debt Management which took place in Amsterdam on 6-7 December 2006 focused on recent trends and developments in public debt management in emerging markets; the role of retail instruments in issuing strategies and risk management of government debt.
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on 01-Dec-2006
The Symposium explored the importance of financial literacy and what's happening in New Zealand and overseas.
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on 09-Nov-2006
The OECD international seminar on "Pension Fund Regulation and Risk Management", sponsored by Risklab and Allianz Global Investors (AGI), was held back to back with the OECD Global Forum on Private Pension in Istanbul, Turkey on 9 November 2006.
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from 29-Nov-2006 to 30-Nov-2006
This Conference, convened under the auspices of Russia' G8 Presidency, will be held in Moscow on 29-30 November 2006. The aim of the conference is to recognise the increased need for financial education in both developed and developing countries.
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from 07-Nov-2006 to 08-Nov-2006
7-8 November 2006, Istanbul, Turkey. The Forum aimed to inform and enlighten the current policy debate on major issues related to private pension reform and encouraged an exchange of experiences derived from innovative policies and programmes across the countries participating.
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Financial crisis: Save our savings
Amid the worst current financial crisis since the 1930s, EU leaders have pledged to protect savers’ deposits. Already most OECD countries have explicit deposit insurance schemes for savings up to certain limits. In a number of countries these have now been raised temporarily.
Click here to see how countries compare.
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