All Country Reports articles – Page 30
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The Nordic Region: Local safe havens: a catch 22
Nordic pension funds have always displayed a bias towards domestically issued fixed income. In the current economic climate, dominated by historically low bond yields and liability-matching, the illiquidity and short maturities that characterise these markets are causing inefficencies in investment models. Nina RÖhrbein reports on the responses of regional players
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Spain: Lessons from Chile
Enrique Munita and Inigo Sagardoy outline aspects of Chile’s funded pension system that might apply to Spain
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Portugal: The wind of change
Gail Moss assesses pensions policy in Portugal following the bail-out
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Spain: The pensions piggy bank
Spain’s heavily indebted regional communities are in pursuit of the €65bn Social Security Reserve Fund. Some think that might not be such a good idea, writes Jim Robinson
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Spain: Shift from conventional assets?
Some see diversification as a trump card as they weather domestic and global economic turbulence, writes Cecile Sourbes
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UK: Risk takers
Nina Röhrbein outlines investment strategies of funds in the local government sector Reaching full funding is a concern to local authority pension funds. As the funding level for most larger local authority pension funds implies that a significant allocation to growth assets is required, there has been only a moderate ...
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UK: Proof in the pudding
Joanne Segars, of the NAPF, says there are flaws in the UK’s pensions policies. Jonathan Williams reports
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UK: PPF: Protector of the UK system
Nina Röhrbein assesses the Pension Protection Fund’s investment strategy
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UK: Policy pending
Over a year after the new government assumed office, Jonathan Williams examines whether a flood of new proposals has been beneficial or detrimental to the pensions industry
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The Netherlands: Social partners take the plunge
The Dutch social partners and cabinet have agreed on a major overhaul of the pension system. Leen Preesman reports
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UK: Not so gold plated
Brendan Maton considers the policy and operational challenges faced by local government pension funds – whose benefits are often described as ‘gold plated’
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UK: Mind the gap, please!
Nina Röhrbein reports on private sector funds’ strategies to deal with funding shortfalls
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UK: Re-thinking fiduciary duty
John Dickson argues that with a little introspection, trustees can show the true power of the trustee model
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The Netherlands: Devil in the details
The new pension agreement is an important step towards a necessary reform of the Dutch pensions system, but many of the agreement’s provisions still need to be fleshed out. Olaf Sleijpen of De Nederlandsche Bank finds that the devil is in the detail, as Leen Preesman and Mariska van der ...
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The Netherlands: Count the cost
An AFM report has revealed that Dutch pension funds are spending up to £3bn a year on hidden asset management costs, reports Mariska van der Westen
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UK: NEST and the competition
Next year NEST opens for contributions. But competitors are also hunting on the same turf, writes Kalpana Fitzpatrick
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UK: Bucking the governance trend
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Paul Myners, chairman and partner at Cevian Capital, and Harlan Zimmerman
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UK: A breakdown in communication
Sarah Dudney sees frustration in the way asset managers communicate with tustees
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The Netherlands: Better in Belgium?
Mariska van der Westen finds out about the benefits that convinced a Dutch pension fund to join a Belgian OFP
