Alf Gohdes
- Features
Quest for the ‘golden’ discount rate
We cannot foresee the long-term future, however much we would like to think we can, argues Alf Gohdes
- Special Report
Germany: Long-term growth
The overall DAX pension funding level has risen slightly, according to Thomas Jasper and Alf Gohdes
- Features
Getting the right rate
There is increasing focus on how to select discount rates for international valuations of German retirement obligations. Udo Bauer, Raimund Rhiel, Friedemann Lucius and Alf Gohdes assess the options
- Features
The evergreen issue of funding
There has been significant progress made during the past 12 months, in legislative, both enacted and planned, in practical and in conceptual terms regarding pension funding. On the legislative front, the European pension fund directive was implemented into local German law in July of this year. The main changes made ...
- Features
Going out on a ratings limb
Across the globe, CEOs and CFOs have been ‘feeling the heat’ for some time. The corporate and personal implications and repercussions of the prolonged slowing of the world economy, the Enron scandal and other stories, the Sarbanes Oxley Act and the sustained decline in equity prices over the past three ...
