All Country Report articles – Page 56
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The Mediterranean: Stuck at the reform impasse
Malta’s pension working group has recommended the development of second pillar pensions. So far there has been no action, writes Stephanie Testaferrata
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Switzerland: Industry views
As part of the structural reform of the second pillar, Swiss regulations BVV1 regarding the supervision of occupational pensions and BVV2 concerning occupational pensions, disability and bereavement provision – have been amended. A new regulation, ASV, is also set to take effect from January 2012. As part of the legislative ...
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Switzerland: Pricing investment risk
Alfred Bühler and Lukas Riesen analyse the costs that arise by taking investment risk and the way they are shared
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Switzerland: Pricing investment risk
Alfred Bühler and Lukas Riesen analyse the costs that arise by taking investment risk and the way they are shared
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The Mediterranean: Widening the spectrum
Cypriot pension funds are slowly diversifying away from cash and local markets, writes Roxanne McMeeken
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Switzerland: Yes, but...
Swiss occupational pension reform is on schedule but the industry does not agree on how to implement it, reports Barbara Ottawa
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Nordic Region: Altruistic allocation
Rachel Fixsen looks at Danish investors’ allocations to the biotechnology industry
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Nordic Region: Capital controls stifle allocation
Nina Röhrbein assesses the impact on pension funds of the collapse of the Icelandic banking industry
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Nordic Region: Debt crisis shifts allocation focus
Reeta Paakkinen assesses asset allocation trends among Finland’s pension institutions
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Nordic Region: The alternative proves popular
Andreas Larsson discusses Swedish pension asset allocation trends. As the appetite for alternative investments is increasing, investors must have the capacity to hold the associated liquidity risks
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Nordic Region: Beyond Denmark
Rachel Fixsen reviews ATP’s international expansion plans, which have caused controversy in Denmark
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Germany: Deutschland AG adapts
The last 10 years have seen a dismantling of the ‘Deutschland AG’ network of cross shareholdings, writes Nina Röhrbein, but there is still room for improvement
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Austria: The long wait
Barbara Ottawa reports on why Austria is still waiting for an amendment to the law on Pensionskassen and what the industry is doing in the meantime
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Germany: Could do better
Norman Dreger reviews Germany’s position in the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension index and outlines areas for improvement
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Germany: A market dominated by providers
Pensionsfonds are established in the German occupational pension market yet bureaucratic hurdles hamper further development, write Alfons Schwarz and Ralph Rost
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Germany: Rise and fall of funded pensions
Funded schemes for German civil servants are drawing criticism – for investment policies, low contributions or because they are being discontinued in many cases. Barbara Ottawa reports
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Germany: Liberal tradition
Versorgungswerke, the odd ones out in the German funded pension system, are a successful model of funding first pillar pensions. Barbara Ottawa reports on the critical factors
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Germany: Where churches lead, others can only follow
Germany leads in clean energy and has a good environmental record in areas like recycling. Yet it remains a laggard in sustainable investing. Nina Röhrbein asks why
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Belgium: KBC Pensioenfonds prepares for accounting rule changes
The pension fund of Belgian bank and insurance group KBC has returned to pre-crisis levels following 2010 returns of 9.42% for the DB and 6.52% for the DC scheme, leaving the scheme with a short-term, liquidation scenario funding level of 147% and a long-term funding level of 113%, up 8% ...
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Belgium: Pension B looks to real estate and tactical asset allocation
Before the Vandenbroucke law came into force in 2004, the Belgian construction sector distributed some of its reserves to its retiring ex-workers. However, this practice did not conform to the new OFP (organisation for financing pensions) system, leading to the creation of the new sector pension fund, Pensio B, in ...
