All articles by IPE staff – Page 20
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Pensions promises - made to be broken?
Faced with demographic and accounting pressures, many European companies that sponsor defined benefit (DB) pension plans are seeking to change the terms of this promise by moving the pension fund risk they bear from themselves to their employees. The simplest way for them to do this is to close the ...
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Going for full disclosure
IPE asked three pension funds in three countries – in Austria, Estonia and Portugal – the same question: ‘What factors do you have to disclose?’ Here are their answers: Robert Kitt is fund manager at Estonia’s Hansa Investment Funds which has second pillar AUM of €155m and third ...
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The great bond shortage?
IPE asked three pension funds in three countries – the Netherlands, the UK and Switzerland: ‘Does the scarcity of high-quality long-term government bonds highlighted by the OECD, pose a problem?’ Here are their answers: Peter Scales, chief executive of the London Pensions Fund Authority, which has AUM of £3.2bn ...
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Risk now the magic word
Erik van Ballegooijen resigned as the director of the pension fund of TNO technical research institute in Delft, Netherlands, at the beginning of this year What was your first full-time job – and do you remember what you were paid at the time? My first job was as a ...
