Comments on: Opaque accounting threatens pensions http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/10/31/opaque-accounting-threatens-pensions/ Richard Murphy on tax and corporate accountability Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:51:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: john b http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/10/31/opaque-accounting-threatens-pensions/#comment-247649 john b Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:10:49 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/10/31/opaque-accounting-threatens-pensions/#comment-247649 But he was talking about how public pension funds are themselves accounted for, and not about the transparency of the international companies that they invest in... But he was talking about how public pension funds are themselves accounted for, and not about the transparency of the international companies that they invest in…

]]> By: Tax Research LLP http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/10/31/opaque-accounting-threatens-pensions/#comment-247582 Tax Research LLP Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:52:08 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/10/31/opaque-accounting-threatens-pensions/#comment-247582 Why not? Don't they invest worldwide? Calpers was an objector ot IFRS 8 Richard Why not?

Don’t they invest worldwide?

Calpers was an objector ot IFRS 8

Richard

]]> By: john b http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/10/31/opaque-accounting-threatens-pensions/#comment-247567 john b Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:43:24 +0000 http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2007/10/31/opaque-accounting-threatens-pensions/#comment-247567 Levitt's comments applied to *US public sector* pension funds, so I'm not sure why country-by-country accounting would make much of a difference to them...? Levitt’s comments applied to *US public sector* pension funds, so I’m not sure why country-by-country accounting would make much of a difference to them…?

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