All Country Reports articles – Page 12
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Second Pillar: Technical difficulties
Despite the challenges facing Switzerland’s second-pillar pension the necessary overhaul of the system is still a long way off, says Barbara Ottawa
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Domestic investment: Returns, but at what cost?
Although Swiss pension funds have a low home bias, local investments still make up a substantial proportion of their portfolios
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Pensions In France: Change of tack on pensions
French supplementary pension funds are to be freed from the capital requirements of Solvency II and brought under the IORP regime, writes Susanna Rust
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Energy Transition: TEEed up for change
A new law has forced climate change onto institutional investors’ agenda, says Susanna Rust
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Swiss pension funds are still coming to terms with negative bond yields and uncertainty over the strength of the Swiss franc. Daniel Ben-Ami examines the considerable challenges they face
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SME Lending: Finance funds for business
Gilles Pouzin writes about the creation of a new fund designed to see institutional assets converted into loans for small French enterprises
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PERCO brews a success
A new law aims to make collective retirement savings plans more attractive, writes Susanna Rust
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Interview: André Tapernoux
Pension funds should be more realistic about evaluating liabilities, André Tapernoux tells Barbara Ottawa
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Asset Allocation: Start of a new era
INDEFI Market Research’s latest annual research on the French institutional market confirms the emergence of key trends for European asset management
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Investment Tax Reform: A simplification gone wrong
The investment industry has successfully lobbied against many new requirements in the investment tax reform law. Barbara Ottawa says it might not be so fortunate in the future
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Pensions in Germany: The joys of negative rates
German pension investors are boxed in. With the prospect of negative 10-year Bund yields, they are forced to expand their fixed-income exposure
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Corporate Pensions: A shift in risk perception
Corporate pension schemes need to change the status quo in terms of governance and implementation if they are to meet their goals, writes Nigel Cresswell
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Interview: Karl Timmel CEO, VBV
Karl Timmel, CEO of Austria’s largest Pensionskasse, VBV, helped to set up the second pillar in the country more than two decades ago
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Pensions in Austria: Broadening the horizons
Like their international counterparts, Austrian Pensionskassen must find new sources of return. Barbara Ottawa reports on the potential opportunities
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Domestic Accounting: Discounting the future
The new discount rate to be applied to pension liabilities under German accounting standards simply postpones a serious problem
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Domestic Accounting: A half-hearted compromise
Thomas Hagemann reviews changes to the discount rate methodology applied by corporates to calculate pension liabilities
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Variable progress
There is room for improvement in the government’s plans to introduce variable annuities for DC pension funds, according to Wichert Hoeckert
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Pensions In The Netherlands: Sailing into rough waters
Few things are as expressive of a country’s culture and history as its popular sayings and expressions. Take the Dutch: when we believe somebody is crazy, we say ‘he has been hit by a windmill’. When something is obvious, we can ‘sense it on our wooden shoes’.
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General Pension Fund: The march of the insurers
The new general pension fund vehicle provides an opportunity for insurers to enter the occupational pensions market and could bring the two sectors closer together. Leen Preesman reports
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The Future: Near the end
Continuing stress on funding ratios is leading to renewed calls for a comprehensive overhaul of the Dutch occupational pension system
