All Country Reports – Page 65
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Funding in a changed world
Liam Kennedy assesses the measures German companies are taking to address pension funding issues and future plan design
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Country ReportIt’s all a matter of timing
Market downturns and French pension reforms appear to co-incide. George Coats assesses the issues
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Missed opportunity
Employee savings plans could have been the next big thing in French financial services but they have failed to take off. Alain Lemoine examines why
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RAPF: allocating for the long term
The past year has been a busy one for RAFP, the €6.3bn French civil service supplementary pension scheme that was established in 2005
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Flying a flag for the Perco
In 2004 Christel Bapt and Benoît Magnier saw an opening in the market. At the time they were both working for bfinance, but they decided to branch out on their own and formed Altedia Investment Consulting.
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Forced to settle for a draw
The FRR has looked vulnerable for some time and the market downturn has not helped its cause. But it has fought off the immediate threats to its future, finds George Coats
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Country ReportA Napoleonic view of sovereign wealth
Last October president Nicolas Sarkozy surprised a European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg by announcing that France was to have a sovereign wealth fund. Subsequently, government officials spoke of a €100bn fund.
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Country ReportStart of consolidation wave?
The SGAM/CAAM merger is expected to trigger a shakeout among French asset managers. George Coats examines why it is happening and what the new landscape might look like
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Coping with stress
Life insurers are France’s largest institutional investors. Alain Lemoine assesses how they are responding to the current crisis
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Country ReportFunds see risk in a different light
Lessons are being learned from the crisis and painful questions are being asked. Mariska van der Westen examines what they are
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Country ReportWeathering the storm
Although Dutch pension funds have all seen their funding ratios decline in the wake of the credit crisis, some have managed to limit the damage. Three funds share their strategies with Mariska van der Westen and Leen Preesman
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Country ReportBoost for new formations
The financial freeze is certain to speed up the trend towards consolidation in the pensions arena as costs soar and companies seek to hand over pension liabilities, finds Mariska van der Westen
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Country ReportOpting not to rebalance
Pension funds see their key asset managers forced to ask for government bailouts and many funds are holding new contributions in cash, finds George Coats
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Country ReportRefocusing on the first pillar
Belgium’s new pensions minister has set up a National Pensions Conference to re-examine the whole issue. But she is not an admirer of the second pillar, finds George Coats
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Country ReportLocal bias extracts a price
When the Irish stock exchange was booming, domestic equities were the place to be. But many pension funds were slow to diversify and this is reflected in their returns, finds George Coats
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Shelved, not forgotten
The Green Paper on pensions was supposed to play a key role in the evolution of Irish pensions policy but the market and economic crises have seen it drop off the government’s agenda. George Coats assesses whether it still has any relevance in the new situation
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Putting the focus on regulation
Regulation was one the main issues mentioned in responses to the government’s Green Paper on Pensions, with many submissions focusing on the funding standard for DC pension schemes. “There were always potential problems around the issue of the funding standard and it has become a lot more real now,” says ...
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The Leaving of Ireland
What happens when transient workers who have paid into Irish pension funds return home? Gail Moss investigates
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Country ReportFears of added financial burden
Opinion is divided on the practicalities of setting up a pension protection scheme in Ireland, finds Julie Henderson
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Country ReportPrevailing winds on lifeboat scheme
The establishment of a State Annuity Fund has been under debate for some years. Philip Shier explains the arguments
