June 2017

EBRD pioneers private pension management in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The EBRD is pioneering the development of private pension management in Bosnia and Herzegovina with an equity investment in the European Voluntary Pension Fund Management Company (EPF) together with Skupna pokojninska družba and the Pension Reserve Fund of Republika Srpska. The EBRD and Enterprise Expansion Fund (ENEF) will jointly invest BAM 1,452,000 (€742,500 equivalent) to purchase 33 per cent of the capital and voting rights in the joint stock company. The investment will allow the fund management firm to become the...

Nigeria. NLC asks Cross River to account for N31b bailout fund

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has asked the Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade, to account for the N31.1 billion bailout fund the state received from the Federal Government. The Organised Labour in the state had on Monday resumed a total strike it suspended on May 30 demanding the payment of arrears of gratuity, release of promotion letters and many others, saying the Paris fund refund and the bailout funds were meant for payment of salaries, pensions and gratuities and...