All Country Reports articles – Page 10
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Pensions In Switzerland: Parliamentary ping pong
A political stalemate is holding up Switzerland’s Altersvorsorge 2020 pensions reform package. And now time is running out, as Barbara Ottawa finds
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Interview: Jacqueline Oh, Swiss Association for Responsible Investments
Jacqueline Oh, managing director of SVVK/ASIR, believes Swiss pension funds are lagging behind some of their European peers when it comes to sustainable investments. But they are catching up
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Financial Sustainability: Are there enough assets?
Lukas Riesen and Stephan Skaanes ask whether Swiss pension funds can financially afford their promises
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Swiss market liquidity: Anything left to drink?
Robert Cranston assesses liquidity trends in Swiss markets
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Asset Allocation: Curves, currency and costs
More than anywhere else, the low and negative interest rate environment is shaping Swiss portfolios. But investment challenges are quite particular, finds Barbara Ottawa
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Sector slams government proposals for regulation on Switzerland's 1e plans
An initial government proposal for a regulation on self-guided top-up pension plans for high earners has been slammed
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Spain: Focus on safety first
Pension funds are reducing their risk levels in response to uncertainties generated by Spain’s failure to form a government, Brexit and Italy’s banking crisis
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Portugal: An eye on European clouds
Against a backdrop of a steadily recovering domestic economy, private pension funds in Portugal have maintained stable asset allocations over the past year
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Pensions Caixa 30: Risk-reduction exercise
Gail Moss finds out what Spain’s biggest corporate pension scheme has been doing to reduce risk in its investment portfolio
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Longevity in the spotlight
Scheme-specific adjustments to standard industry tables can help smaller pension funds take into account the effect of longevity, according to Michael Kelly and Glyn Bradley
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Liquidity warnings
Regulation is constraining pension funds’ ability to manage risk and they should prepare for future illiquidity
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Pensions In The Netherlands: The end of the road
The sector has run out of options to avoid looming rights cuts, says Leen Preesman
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A Dutch view on IORP II
IORP II sometimes fails to reflect European case law, according to Hans Van Meerten
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Diversified Growth Funds: Diffusing the risk
Katherine Lynas and Adam Gillespie point out that strong diversified growth funds distinguish themselves in performance terms at times of heightened market stress
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LGPS: Straight in at the deep end
Gail Moss assesses progress so far as the eight local government asset pools of England and Wales test the water
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Master Trusts: A DC default for the future
Pádraig Floyd assesses how master trust providers are shaping the design of defined contribution default funds
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DB Sponsor Covenants: Underlying weaknesses
The British Steel and BHS cases have drawn attention to structural flaws in the UK’s defined benefit system when it comes to the sponsor covenant, writes Gill Wadsworth
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Cabinet steadies reforms
Leen Preesman looks at the measures the government is taking to stabilise the pension system
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Pensions In UK: Of Brexit, deficits and LDI
With a potential Brexit in sight, Carlo Svaluto Moreolo asks whether the assumptions underlying liability-driven investment (LDI) need to be reconsidered
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One-Tier Boards: One job, two hats
André de Voss speaks to Geraldine Leegwater and Paulien Siegman about how the one-tier board structures are working in practice