All Country Report articles – Page 17
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Switzerland: In need of a reformist zeal
The Swiss pension system needs reform but consent is needed in a federal referendum. Have politicians learnt from campaigning during the rejected Altervorsorge 2020 proposals?
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Risk Management: Is everything still good?
Swiss pension funds have coped well with the financial crisis, but appearances can be deceptive
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ESG: Still the ugly duckling
ESG is still an unpopular investment strategy in Switzerland. How will it overcome this lack of enthusiasm?
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Mortality: How a year makes a difference
Swiss longevity assumptions have substantial effects on key technical figures in Pensionskassen
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Werner Hug: Less complexity, more solidarity
The Swiss second pillar has become too complex and lost sight of its original principle of employer patronage towards employees
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Asset Management: Fit for purpose
The globalisation of asset management means that Swiss managers have to broaden their product range and service different regulatory regimes
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Illiquid Investments: Challenges ahead
Illiquid investments should appeal to pension funds because of their long-term benefits, but are opportunities equal?
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Competition inquiry has hindered fiduciary managers, report finds
KPMG sees slowdown in fidiciary expansion but ‘may represent a blip rather than lower growth in the long term’
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€8.5bn Dutch postal service scheme appoints Kempen as adviser
TKP Investments loses major advisory client as PostNL decides to split advice and implementation
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Swedish Premium Pension: Safe and sound
Reform of the Premium Pension System aims to root out poor management practices and make the system sustainable
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Swedish Premium Pension: Lundbergh’s nudge
How to formulate evidence-based pension reform proposals in 10 weeks
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Nordic Region: Shifting borders
Is the Nordic dream of a unified Danish-Swedish pensions market over?
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Change of focus at Apoteket fund
Gustav Karner cleans out old medicine at the pharmacy pension fund, as attention turns to cost cutting
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Asset Allocation: Innovation for the future
Nordic institutions maintain an innovative diversification path
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Fiduciary managers: CMA sticks to its guns after data criticism
Competition regulator still finds adverse effects on competition after revisiting data on fiduciary costs
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Fiduciary management rule causes confusion for Dutch pension sector
Anton van Nunen argues that proposed law provides for a ‘solution to a non-existent problem’
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UK regulator sets out fiduciary manager concerns
TPR sees fiduciary managers’ investment teams more easily ‘let off the hook’
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Dutch parliament wants to limit scope of fiduciary managers
MP says amendment would prohibit supervision of scheme investment policies by fiduciary managers
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Robeco’s multi-manager subsidiary completes management buyout
Corestone aims to broaden its target market outside that of former parent