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Features
Danish Reform: The 2025 Plan
The government of Denmark – a country ranked, according to the Melbourne Mercer Global Pensions index, as having the best pension system in the world – is planning to push funded pensions coverage into new territory.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Pension equities ebb
The defined benefit (DB) pension funds of the companies in the S&P 500 index are in deficit. At December 2015, these were $376.6bn (€337bn) underfunded, according to Citigroup’s chief US equity strategist Tobias Levkovich.
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: A vision for cross-border workers
A former director of the European Association of Paritarian Institutions (AEIP) has proposed a new option for occupational pensions that could help the large number of workers whose careers take them across EU internal borders.
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Special Report
IPE Top 1000: European pension assets grow by 9%
Europe’s pension funds now manage more than €6.7trn in combined assets, a year-on-year increase of 9.4%, according to IPE’s latest Top 1000 Pension Funds survey.
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Features
From Our Perspective: Brexit adds to the pressure
Future observers might point to the 23 June EU referendum as a turning point for UK occupational pensions. The fall in Gilt yields has added pain to trustees and sponsors, vindicating those who had hedging strategies in place
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Features
EC heeds concerns over EMIR sovereign-bond collateral rule
Pension schemes could be exempt from a diversification requirement relating to the use of sovereign bonds as collateral for non-centrally cleared derivatives
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Features
Quantitative Easing: UK trustees locked in vicious circle
The Bank of England’s decision to re-launch its quantitative easing (QE) programme in August, has seen defined benefit deficits across the country’s 6,000 schemes rise to unprecedented levels
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Features
Italy: The Atlante 2 impasse
A series of forthright announcements from Italy’s professional sector pension funds might have disappointed government hopes for money to prop up ailing banks but have served to reassert the sector’s commitment to fiduciary duty
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: Pensions dreamland?
The two presidential candidates disagree on everything except on Social Security, the US federal programme that guarantees basic pension benefits
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Weighty in-tray for new CMU commissioner
Valdis Dombrovskis has assumed responsibility as commissioner in charge of the flagship Capital Markets Union project. But he has also assumed the added complication of the withdrawal of the UK
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Features
Brexit: Scheduled for departure
The political and economic ramifications of Brexit are wide-ranging. The effect on Gilts, sterling and equity markets was immediate in the aftermath of the referendum.
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Features
How to fight populism
A striking shift has happened in recent years. Developing countries used to be seen as unstable, while advanced economies were viewed as stable
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Features
Italy's pensions reform: No more tinkering
Only four years since the last pensions reform, the Italian government is once again discussing further changes to the system.
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Features
From Our Perspective: Matters of culture
In Garrison Keillor’s fictional Lake Wobegon, not only are all the women strong and all the men good looking, but all the children are above average
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Features
Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global: Fund urged to help foster tax transparency
As a small country in charge of a not-so-small sovereign wealth fund, it is hardly surprising that the NOK7.1trn Government Pension Fund Global’s power for good or bad causes some level of anxiety in Norway
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: Posted worker woes
It will not be the first time that proposed revisions to EU rules affecting finance and pensions get stuck in a logjam between interests groups
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: De-risking threatened
Corporate America is looking at the impact of the Pundt, Edward vs Verizon Communications case after the Supreme Court awarded victory to the retirees
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AnalysisIPE Honorary Commendation 2015 – Dick Sluimers
When Dick Sluimers stepped down as chairman and chief executive officer at what he described as a “natural time” to retire from the €412bn Dutch asset manager and pensions provider APG, his legacy was already well-entrenched, having spent many years in the Dutch government before being ...
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Analysis
IPE Honorary Commendation 2015 – Noël Amenc
Noël Amenc was the founding director of EDHEC Risk Institute (EDHEC), the centre for risk and asset management research established as part of the not-for-profit EDHEC Business School. Under his leadership – a post he relinquished in 2015 to concentrate on building EDHEC’s smart beta specialist ...
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Features
From Our Perspective: Under the thumb
Some occupational pensions and their regulatory systems were designed for another era. Increasingly, fixed-rate annual accrual or guarantee systems, like German and Swiss Pensionskassen, look like relics.
