All Country Reports articles – Page 26
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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
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Italy: A mixed picture
Carlo Svaluto Moreolo outlines the disappointing membership figures in COVIP’s latest annual report, which overshadow a healthy 9% increase in overall pension AUM
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Switzerland: 99 questions
The Swiss pension industry is confronted with as many questions as answers while the government consults on second pillar reforms, writes Barbara Ottawa
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The Mediterranean: Injection of enthusiasm
Smart tax reforms look likely to boost Turkey’s small supplementary pension sector, which is predicted to reach €100bn by 2023, according to Reeta Paakkinen
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Switzerland: The Swiss ESG paradox
Nina Röhrbein assesses why Swiss pension funds lag in ESG implementation, even though the country leads in terms of ESG asset management
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Switzerland: Larger fish to fry
Switzerland’s largest public Pensionskasse, Publica, has a new director but the tracks towards a more sustainable future of the fund had been laid before his arrival, finds Barbara Ottawa
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Switzerland: Pension funds seek returns
Persistent low interest rates are making it harder to achieve risk-free returns. Pension funds will need the tailwind of friendly stock markets, argues Peter Bänziger
