Alfred Kool
- Special Report
How to raise pensions awareness
Alfred Kool suggests a way in which pension funds can organise the communication of information to their members in an efficient and professional way
- Features
Going against the investment grain
The solution to Holland’s pension problems lies in a system with more focus on pay-as-you-go systems and less on funded systems, say the authors of a new book. Alfred Kool finds out why
- Features
Rewarding pension fund communication
New legislation will make it mandatory for Dutch pension funds to supply their members with up to date information about their progress and a new awards scheme should help them to sharpen up their communication skills, says Alfred Kool
- Features
Trade unions try another tactic
With solidarity weakening, and the young growing suspicious of the pensions wealth of the old, Dutch trade unions are adopting new tactics to win new members, says Alfred Kool
- Features
Market conduct under microscope
Under the renewed Dutch pension law, one of the new tasks of the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) will be the supervision of the quality of information pension funds provide their members and pensioners with a second supervisor for the funds. Within the pensions industry this announcement caused ...
- Features
More to communication than links
Consensus is growing both within and outside of the pension world that clearness and transparency about complex pension schemes is needed. Yet the quality of communication between funds and participants and pensioners is often criticised. Have pension funds and insurers not yet found the best way to communicate, or is ...
