All Country Reports – Page 58
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Country ReportSwitzerland: A never-ending road
With impeccable timing, yet another scandal has hit Swiss pensions just as the country is finalising a reform of second pillar supervision. Barbara Ottawa assesses the state of Swiss pension regulation and governance
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The Nordic Region: Sweden Home bias wanes
Pirkko Juntunen finds that competition reasons may sway domestic allocations among life and pension companies
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The Nordic Region: Norway A concentrated equity market
Norway’s stock exchange, Oslo Børs, comprises of 203 issuers, of which 36 are foreign companies. The market-cap totals almost NOK1.5trn (€186bn) and the exchange saw six new listings in 2010.
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The Nordic Region: Folketrygdfondet The quiet sibling
Pirkko Juntunen reports on Folketrygdfondet, which manages the Government Pension Fund Norway and the Government Bond Fund within tight regional constraints
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The Nordic Region: Finland Gradual decline
Reeta Paakkinen outlines the local investment trend in Finnish pension investors’ portfolios
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The Nordic Region: External blacklists dominate ESG
Scandinavian investors have for a long time had a sustainably orientated ethical approach. But Nina Rohrbein finds that this is not playing to the positive
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The Nordic Region: Hedge fund appetite
Charlotte Bonde Tamm presents insights into hedge fund investments among Nordic investors
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The Nordic Region: Funds seek to restore equity
Jan Willers outlines some of the key findings of a recent survey on Nordic institutional asset allocation and trends within equities
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The Nordic Region: Denmark’s planned venture capital fund
When key parties from the Danish pensions industry emerged from their meeting with the economics and business affairs minister Brian Mikkelsen back in August 2010, they declared themselves optimistic that somehow they would work together to put together DKK5bn (€670m) of funding to help small and medium-sized enterprises in their ...
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Country ReportThe Nordic Region: Denmark Home front target
Rachel Fixsen investigates the pressures that Danish pension funds are facing to align their investments in support of the domestic economy
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Spain: Eggs in one basket
Jim Robinson comments on the asset allocation of Spain’s €58bn social security reserve fund
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Portugal: Diversification away from home
Nina Röhrbein reports on a Portuguese pension market that is stagnating as employers struggle with more pressing issues
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Country ReportSpain: Where to diversify?
Gail Moss charts the asset allocations of Spanish pension entities and notes the increase in interest in risk management
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The Netherlands: A plan for pensions
At the invitation of IPE’s Dutch sister publication IPN in June, writes Mariska van der Westen, over 80 pension funds and consultants joined experts to discuss the challenges facing the Dutch pension sector.
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The Netherlands: Not an easy game
Anton van Nunen examines why pension fund-owned fiduciary managers have been less successful than other competitors
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The Netherlands: A new Dutch IORP
Wilfried Mulder and Hans van Meerten outline the Netherlands’ planned new fund vehicle, the PPI
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The Netherlands: Who will take up the challenge?
It is widely hoped that the introduction of the multi-OPF will offer smaller corporate funds a means to survive in a complex investment environment. Mariska van der Westen asks who will partake?
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Country ReportThe Netherlands: Still a popular choice
Fiduciary management is still gaining ground in the Netherlands, and pension funds believe themselves to be in control despite delegating to a one-stop shop service provider, according to the third annual fiduciary management survey of 26 Dutch pension funds of our Dutch sister publication IPN. The funds vary in size ...
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Country ReportUK: A pension coalition
The UK’s new coalition government was as quick to tackle the tricky issue of pensions policy as it was surprisingly quick in its formation. Gill Wadsworth outlines the issues under consideration
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UK: Building the NEST
Announced in the Pension Act of 2007, the National Employee Savings Trust is a work in progress. Nina Röhrbein reports
