All Country Report articles – Page 50
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UK: How to aim for the impossible
Rudyard Ekindi, director at NEST, discusses how the scheme hopes to achieve long-term and strong performance
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The Netherlands: Anxiety management
Nina Röhrbein gauges views on how the likely changes to Dutch pensions will affect investment and risk strategies
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UK: Bucking the trend
Jonathan Williams reviews the Strathclyde Pension Fund, a defined benefit scheme which is still open to new members as well as net cashflow positive.
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UK: Contributions and deficits to increase
Nick Bunch reviews the findings of LCP’s nineteenth annual report on the UK’s defined benefit landscape
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The Netherlands: PPI to spur DC growth
The Dutch affinity with defined benefit schemes has limited the take-up of defined contribution, writes Nina Röhrbein. Could the PPI vehicle change this?
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The Netherlands: Fault lines
Leen Preesman and Mariska van der Westen read the runes of Dutch politics, which will be the crucial factor in determining the future of the country’s occupational pension system
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The Netherlands: From FTK to FBK
Jean Frijns, Guus Boender and Theo Kocken inspired a lively debate at the IPNederland conference in June. Leen Preesman and Mariska van der Westen report
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UK: Flawed model
Iain Morse reviews the market for custody services for UK pension funds
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UK: Super trusts – how they work
Gail Moss takes the NAPF’s super trust idea and runs an international comparison
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UK: Reassurance needed, not insurance
As longevity improves and fewer people are saving for pensions, Malcolm McLean argues for the industry to rebuild confidence
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UK: Trustee power
Matthew Claisse and Lorant Porkolab highlight important new proposals regarding the powers of pension fund trustees in corporate transactions
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UK: Questions remain
With auto-enrolment just a few months away, Pádraig Floyd assesses the future shape of DC pensions
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UK: The third way
Nearly two decades after Tony Blair espoused a ‘third way’ in UK politics, the current government is in favour of a defined ambition approach in occupational pensions that would combine elements of DB and DC. Jonathan Williams asks whether the industry wants it
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UK: No more ‘set and forget’
Gill Wadsworth examines current practice among UK pension funds and their trustees in the management of liability risk
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Italy: Adopting diversity for growth
Gail Moss reports on how Compagnia di San Paolo has managed its assets while faced with the risks of low euro-zone growth and a major shareholding in an Italian bank – Intesa San Paolo
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Italy: Meeting the governance challenge
Italy’s pension market is experiencing a period of significant change in the wake of government reforms enacted at the end of 2011. Armando Piccinno discusses the ramifications
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Italy: A new order
First-pillar reforms and proposals to change investment rules for second-pillar funds represent a step change for Italian companies and pension funds. But they have not been matched by a commitment to support supplementary pensions as a whole, finds Nina Röhrbein
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Italy: Missing the point of reform
Maria Teresa Cometto reports on the political criticism of the technocratic-driven pension reforms of December 2011. Attention has focused on the so-called esodati, rather than the calamitous state of the public pension system
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Italy: Lessons from ENPAM
The ENPAM pension fund for medical professionals made the headlines last year after concerned members alerted the press to alleged wrong-doing. Carlo Svaluto Moreolo sheds light on a matter that has seen the former chairman under investigation for fraud and which also raises questions about transparency and governance at some Italian pension schemes
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Italy: Governance hopes
Carlo Svaluto Moreolo spoke to senior figures at the Cometa and Fonchim closed pension funds about their plans and thoughts about the market
