All IPE articles in July 2014 (Magazine) – Page 3

  • Opinion Pieces

    “Italian employees have great need of consistent additional pension coverage”

    July 2014 (Magazine)

    Assets managed by pension funds in Italy equate to about 6% of its gross domestic product. In a country where the social security system provides an adequate level of coverage at retirement that would not be a concern. But in Italy, after all the recent reforms, this situation represents a relevant risk for both employees and employers. Benefits provided by the social security system have strongly decreased over the last 20 years and the retirement age raised considerably. 

  • Features

    Can the UK import concepts from abroad?

    July 2014 (Magazine)

    Government plans for pensions caused ripples in the industry after the official opening of the 2014-15 UK parliamentary session.

  • Features

    Pension Fund Governance: ABP to the ballot box

    July 2014 (Magazine)

    For the first time, the €309bn Dutch civil servants fund has held elections for its accountability body. More controversially, pensioners will now sit on the main board, writes Mariska van der Westen

  • Opinion Pieces

    On track with 401(k)

    July 2014 (Magazine)

    Individual retirement savings accounts (IRAs) have been helping US workers navigate the ups and downs of Wall Street since the 2008 financial crisis. IRAs and employer-sponsored defined contribution (DC) plans grew to $6.5trn and $5.9trn (€4.8trn and €4.3trn), respectively, at year-end 2013, up from $5.6trn and $5trn the previous year, according to data in the 2014 Investment Company Fact Book.

  • Features

    Focus Group: Do you get what you pay for? (Part 2)

    July 2014 (Magazine)

    Just half of the participants to this month’s Focus Group think diversity on a pension fund board is important – but three respondents ranked it as “very unimportant”. “[It is important] both in terms of employer representation, member representation, cultures and gender. Diversity is a key aspect of our communication strategy,” said a UK fund.

  • Features

    All new IAS19: the verdict

    July 2014 (Magazine)

    The International Accounting Standards Board issued revisions to its pensions-accounting standard IAS19 in 2011. But has the project delivered the goods? Stephen Bouvier asks KPMG’s Naz Peralta about the evidence