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Jury is out on regulators' actions
Whether you are reading a newspaper on the London underground or in a Milan coffee shop, the headlines may be different, but the translation is the same. “Pensions in crisis”… “Pension industry time bomb”…. Equities markets have been in relative free fall since the turn of the new millennium as ...
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Russian system creaks into action
Russia’s pension reform has been slow in coming. For the past eight years, a three-pillar system has gradually been taking shape, and over the past two years, developments to the second pillar appear to have now been finalised. Back in January, President Putin signed the law to allow private asset ...
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No longer running like clockwork
Like the country itself, the Swiss pension system has in the past been perceived as independent, prosperous and relatively unaffected by the vagaries of the outside world. This impression, however, has been challenged in recent years by the prolonged fall in stock markets and the dramatic effect this has had ...
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Insurers' moves harsh wake-up call for Swiss pensions
For the second year in a row, Swiss pension plan members are being jolted from their easy-chairs by the impact of the bear market of the last three years. Eyebrows had already raised around the Cantons and beyond last year when the Swiss authorities cut the minimum income guarantee for ...
