Gerard Roelofs
- Country Report
The Netherlands: Nominal or real? Or best of both?
Michel Iglesias del Sol and Gerard Roelofs assess the wider implications of FTK2
- Country Report
The Netherlands: It’s not easy to get right
Cees Harm van den Berg and Gerard Roelofs find that the UFR has led to heightened awareness of interest rate risk and many funds have changed their hedging policy.
- Country Report
The Netherlands: It’s not easy to get right
Cees Harm van den Berg and Gerard Roelofs find that the UFR has led to heightened awareness of interest rate risk and many funds have changed their hedging policy.
- Country Report
The Netherlands: Pensions turmoil
Changes to Dutch pensions could mean greater interest in DC structures, such as premium pension institutions (PPIs), argue Gerard Roelofs and Michel Iglesias del Sol
- Features
Delaying the inevitable?
Under the current actuarial rulings (APP), pension funds are allowed to use interest rates up to a maximum of 4% to discount liability streams. This has to be done in a prudent fashion. Specifically the words ‘maximum’ and ‘prudent’ seem to be ignored quite regularly, as it is almost a ...