IPE's Netherlands Coverage – Page 145
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NewsDutch pension funds' recovery plans 'could fall short of recovery' – Mercer
Consultancy issues warning after 30-year swap rate drops from 2.4% to 2.2% in just one week.
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NewsPFZW joins list of Dutch schemes acknowledging possible rights cuts
Director says fund could miss recovery target as coverage ratio hovers around 97%.
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News€14bn pension fund for Philips to drop private equity, hedge funds
Philips Pensioenfonds shifts toward commodities, emerging market equities and bonds.
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NewsInterest hedge boosts returns at Shell's €18bn Dutch pension fund
Without hedge, fund would have lost 0.8% on investments, according to annual report.
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NewsEquity markets, interest rates render Dutch discount rate negligible
Difference between daily forward curve, three-month average no more than 6 basis points.
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NewsPNO Media sees returns saved by hedge as it considers merger
Returns on investments of 0.1% offset by interest rate hedge put in place by €3.4bn fund.
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NewsLow interest rates trump solid returns at largest Dutch pension funds
PFZW director Peter Borgdorff says falling interest rates 'throwing spanner in the works again'.
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NewsPension fund for Dutch film industry to merge with €3.4bn PNO Media
Pension rights and benefits for BPF Film participants to increase by 5% from 1 April.
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NewsAchmea cites low interest rates for switch to DC pensions
Dutch firm says asset-accumulating, traditional guaranteed products 'no longer profitable'.
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The Netherlands: Big is beautiful – up to a point
Mariska van der Westen and Miranda Schoutsen report on the growing trend of Dutch pension fund consolidation. What is the optimum size for a pension scheme?
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The Netherlands: The bigger, the better?
Pension fund consolidation is generally welcomed in the belief that big equals beautiful. Our sister publication, IPNederland conducted an in-depth analysis based on comprehensive data on Dutch pension funds
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The Netherlands: Reforms on track
With as much as 40% of the Dutch population likely to face retirement benefit cuts of 1-3% from next year, the issue of pension provision has become a top priority in the portfolio of Minister Henk Kamp. He presides over the department of social affairs and labour, “but from the ...
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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
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The Netherlands: Sustainable after the crisis?
Pierre Akkermans outlines recent pension developments in the Dutch pension system
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The Netherlands: ‘Modular’ management gains ground
In the Netherlands, the classic model of fiduciary management has been losing ground since the crisis of 2008. Trustee boards are taking back control. André de Vos reports
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€41bn Dutch pension fund PMT facing 6% cuts next year
€246bn civil service scheme ABP also anticipating ‘limited’ discount, together with premium increase.
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News€240bn ABP to consider benefit cuts if financial situation fails to improve
Trustees to decide on 'additional measures' if no improvement seen by 31 December.
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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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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: Better in Belgium?
Mariska van der Westen finds out about the benefits that convinced a Dutch pension fund to join a Belgian OFP
