Belgium: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis
Latest news and analysis of pensions, asset management, regulation and trends in Belgium from our award-winning journalists.
Belgian pension funds bounce back with 4.5% H1 return
PensioPlus attributed the improved returns to an investment policy focused on long-term investments in the real economy
Impact Cubed joins forces with Impact Orange Partners
The partnership aims to set a benchmark for ESG integration in Belgium and the Netherlands
Belgium: First-pillar reform caps highest pensions
Federal government manages to work out a first-pillar agreement before the parliamentary recess
Belgian government reaches deal on first-pillar pension reform
The agreement, which is to represent 0.5% of GDP in long-term savings compared to a pension deal reached last year, is supposed to safeguard a €847m cheque from the EU’s Covid Recovery Fund
Belgian pension funds pass stress test even in unfavourable scenario
Belgian schemes achieved an average return of -14.98% in 2022
Low Countries’ COVID recovery funds contingent on pension reform
The Netherlands and Belgium must push through reforms to their pension systems to receive COVID recovery grants from Brussels
Pension funds on the record: how they manage LDI
Pension funds reflect on the role of LDI in their portfolios and the risks associated with an unlikely, but not impossible, sudden rise in interest rates
Belgian pension funds maintain 4.02% long-term real return, says PensioPlus
Plus the association said over 80% of Belgian pension funds now incorporate some form of ESG factors within their investment policy
European pensions sector fails to use clout in green finance policymaking
Think tank finds that though many European pension funds stand out in climate engagement with stocks they own, they are generally not actively influencing policy
Belgium: Limited agreement on pension changes reached
A minimum monthly first-pillar pension will apply from 2024 but there has been little effort to boost supplementary schemes
Belgian pension fund association elects new chair as Neyt steps down
‘Governance requires rotation’, says Neyt after more than 15 years of chairmanship
IPE Quest: Ghent pension fund seeks managers for illiquids
Commitments are planned to unlisted infrastructure, real estate and secure income assets
Germany added to Sanofi pension fund in Belgium cross-border first
‘This will open doors for other multinational corporations,’ says Aon
Belgium: Government sets universal access task
The Vivaldi coalition wants to increase second-pillar coverage and boost contributions
Dutch insurer seeks managers for small-cap equity
Plus: Discovery search for global EM fixed income
C-alm tenders mandate on behalf of Swiss scheme
Plus: Belgian scheme launches pre-RFI for private debt and private equity
Mandate roundup: Belgian investor seeks mortgage loans ideas
Belgian investor uses IPE Quest’s pre-RFI tool; FRR retenders US dollar corporate bond mandates
Swiss reinsurer seeks manager for multi-asset mandate
Plus: Benelux-based investor launches global equity tender
Belgium’s Ogeo pension fund fires management committee
Move appears to be linked to a corruption scandal
Sampension ramps up tax scrutiny, demanding firms report regionally
Danish pension fund requires companies to report tax paid by region, not just globally
NBIM awards $500,000 of grants, eyes corporate governance insight
Norwegian SWF funds academic studies into the impact on companies of more fragmented ownership
Belgium: Steady as she goes
Improvements to the country’s pension system have continued in the face of persistent political problems and the global health crisis
How we run our money: Pensioenfonds KBC
Luc Vanbriel, CIO of Pensioenfonds KBC, tells Carlo Svaluto Moreolo how the Brussels-based fund is coping with the current crisis
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