leading supervisory convergence
towards a high-quality prudential supervision throughout the
EU
strengthening the financial stability
of the insurance and occupational pensions sectors
delivering EIOPA s mandate
effectively and efficiently
Sustainability
Many of the key areas of focus incorporate sustainable finance
objectives. EIOPA aims to foster supervisory convergence across the
EU in the assessment of environmental, social and governance
(
ESG) risks, and promote standardised information
to identify sustainable investments and ESG risks.
Digitalisation
Digitalisation has accelerated dramatically due to COVID-19.
EIOPA acknowledges that it must strike a balance between
establishing a convergent and sound supervisory approach to
digitalisation and enhancing financial innovation as well as
HANNIBAL â Registration for Hannibal Parks & Recreation Spring Pickleball League is now open. Participants may sign up for leisure, intermediate or competitive leagues.
Play will be on Tuesday evenings at the Admiral Coontz Recreation Center, starting March 16 and ending April 20. There will be a tournament for the competitive league on Tuesday, April 27. The schedule will be determined after all registrations are received. The cost is $35 per team.
The registration deadline is Friday, March 5. Registration is available at the Hannibal Parks & Recreation office at City Hall, 320 Broadway. More information is available by calling Jenna McDonald at 573-221-0154 or emailing jmcdonald@hannibal-mo.gov.
Longtime Shades Mountain Baptist pastor set to retire
Photo by Erin Nelson.
Danny Wood, longtime pastor at Shades Mountain Baptist Church, sits in the front pew of the worship center. Ã
Shades Mountain Baptist Pastor Danny Wood preaches in October 2020.
âThis is where weâll be forever,â Wood recalled saying at the time.
Six months later, Wood resigned his position with the former South Central Bell company, and moved his family to Fort Worth, Texas, where he attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary after feeling that God was calling him into Christian ministry.
Fourteen years later, Wood returned to Shades Mountain Baptist Church: the church he had once called home, the church in which he had been married and ordained, and the church from which heâll retire in after more than 20 years as lead pastor.
PLSA warns most pension tax reform options would leave many with lower savings
By Duncan Ferris
24/2/21
The Pensions & Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has said that none of the four main options for pension tax reform that are commonly discussed meet its Five Principles for Pension Taxation .
Its report outlined five principles on which the PLSA believes any reform should be based, including the need for reforms to help savers make the right decisions about retirement saving, and to be simple for employers and schemes to adopt and administer.
Other listed principles were the need to help everyone, regardless of their type of employment, to save for retirement, and to promote adequate incentives and financial support for retirement saving.
CalSTRS Aims for New $2 Billion Sustainable Portfolio
Pension plan officials believe they can build a new private markets allocation without sacrificing investment targets.
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) plans to build a private markets sustainable investment portfolio to go greener while aiming to maintain its investment returns.
The investment committee of the $282.5 billion pension system, the largest teachers’ retirement fund in the world, is expected to approve the new portfolio at its meetings next week.
The pension system’s plan calls for investments of $1 billion to $2 billion in the next couple of years much of it in real estate affordable housing investments, as well as in private equity and infrastructure according to CalSTRS investment committee material.