All BaFin articles
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NewsWTW: German pension investors need to expand their ‘comfort zone’
Consultancy sees room and need for bigger allocations to alternatives
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Few cross-border funds meet new German performance fee criteria
Fitz Partners finds that only 13% of UCITS funds would meet tighter performance fee structure conditions effective from December
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German Pensionskassen announce major cuts to reserves
Ailing Caritas and Kölner PK have agreed recovery terms with member representatives and the national financial regulator BaFin
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German supervisor disagrees with EIOPA over IORP inspection cycle
EIOPA issued recommended actions to IORP supervisors in 16 countries after a peer review
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BaFin warning on Pensionskassen was ‘wake-up call’ to sector
Chair of Wacker Chemie Pensionskasse argues that regulatory intervention was ‘beneficial shock’ for some organisations
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German regulator urges take-up of new DC model
Also: Union representative hints at “major project close to completion” involving insurer for new non-guaranteed pension
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German Pensionskassen, BaFin in ‘uncharted territory’ over solvency
Three Pensionskassen in talks with German regulator over 2017 losses, more might follow
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aba fears ‘disastrous’ impact of German IORP II bill
Government’s proposal does not capture the minimum harmonisation ‘spirit’ of IORP II, says pension fund trade body
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German pensions veteran Schwind to step down as Hoechst chief
Schwind has been running the well-known Hoechst pension funds for some 20 years
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German regulator giving ‘high priority’ to new DC plans
Encourages collective bargaining parties, providers, to get in touch
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German insurance-based pension funds sceptical about BRSG
Only a quarter believe introducing DC to Germany will provide opportunities for their businesses
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German regulator to hold Brexit workshop for UK asset managers
Workshop aimed at UK-based managers thinking about relocating to Germany
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Eight Pensionskassen fail German regulator’s stress test
Vast majority of supervised Pensionkassen considered to have sufficient ‘risk-bearing capacity’
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BaFin to curtail German pension funds' alternatives allocations
Changes to German investment regulations may increase minimum bond rating requirements
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Seven Pensionskassen fail German regulator's stress test
BaFin president expects individual plans to ‘need more money soon’
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ECB planning to collect data from European pension funds – BaFin
Talks on guarantees in Germany ‘altered’ by low interest rates, new regulation
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German, Austrian regulators OK cross-border pension plan
Nestlé Austria to transfer active members to German Pensionsfonds
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German regulator reveals results of local stress tests for pension funds
Solvency levels increase year on year despite low-interest-rate environment, BaFin says
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German pension fund association lauds Italian take on IORP II Directive
Aba praises impact of proposed changes on pension funds’ costs
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BaFin unconcerned by stress test failure of nearly dozen Pensionskassen
Local supervisor confirms short-term risk-bearing capacity of industry, with funding level stable year-on-year
