Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 239
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Country Report
Local Government Pension Scheme: Is bigger always better?
After years of discussing local government pension reform, the government is no closer to a formal policy to restructure the system. This has not deterred frontrunners from exploring different methods of achieving scale and lowering costs
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Country Report
Interview: The bigger picture
René van de Kieft, the incoming CEO of MN, talks about the current state of the Dutch pension system and its destructive focus on average contributions
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Special Report
France: Supplementary pension scheme facing depletion
The deficit of the Agirc-Arrco complementary pension system is exacerbated by France’s poor employment situation
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Country Report
Dutch Pensions Reform: Full speed ahead
Lans Bovenberg contends that the Dutch government should move fast to implement personal pensions with risk sharing
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Special ReportGermany: Sector funds still controversial
Well over a decade after the introduction of Pensionsfonds and the Riester-Pension, Germany is weighing up significant change to boost coverage
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Country Report
Asset Management: The rise of multi-asset
Gill Wadsworth looks at the changes adopted by pension funds as they seek investment opportunites that offer stability, diversification and healthy returns
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Country Report
UK Budget Changes: Further nails in the coffin
Kevin Davey assesses pension changes announced by the government in its July Budget
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Country Report
An introduction to the APF vehicle
Leen Preesman examines the Netherlands’ latest pensions creation, the general pension fund, or APF
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Special ReportIceland: Glimmers of hope
After seven years of capital and currency controls, restrictions on pension funds investing outside the country are beginning to be relaxed
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Features
From Our Perspective: Who’s watching the watchers?
In some countries they are accused of heavy-handedness; in others they seem content to play a light-touch role. Either way, European pension regulation remains as diverse as the continent’s pension systems. The IORP II Directive, like its 2004 counterpart will be interpreted and implemented differently across the EU member states; harmonisation of regulation has not led to a harmonisation of regulators.
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Features
Reviving the Celtic tiger
The biggest challenge facing Eugene O’Callaghan, director of the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, is how to avoid pricing himself out of a recovering Irish market
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Opinion Pieces
Long-term Matters: Learning from coal
Last month the chief executive of Norges Bank Investment Management, Yngve Slyngstad, offered an implicit admission of error
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from Brussels: A tricky path ahead
The process of making pensions policy in Brussels between now and end of the year resembles two juggernauts moving towards each other
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Opinion Pieces
Letter from the US: A new way of thinking
Three years ago car makers Ford and General Motors opened the way to a new means of de-risking defined-benefit (DB) pension plans. They offered a lump sum to participants who were receiving benefits
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Opinion Pieces
Guest Viewpoint: Jason Hsu - Research Affiliates
“A public hanging is a good thing now and then.” These are the words of an anonymous CEO whose sentiment would indicate that the firm he led was probably struggling to meet the service and performance expectations of its clients
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Features
Don’t miss out on class action payouts
Class action activity is on the rise in the US where some European institutions have received big payouts
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Features
Defined Contribution: Going the distance
In Australia and the US, best practice in the DC sector is to ensure participants have sufficient income throughout retirement, writes Christopher O’Dea
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Features
Accounting Standards: Prudence redux
The International Accounting Standards Board says it has listened to long-term investors and is considering the reintroduction of the concept of prudence into its conceptual framework
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FeaturesHow we run our money: PPF
Barry Kenneth, chief investment officer at the Pension Protection Fund, tells Taha Lokhandwala about the UK’s lifeboat fund’s innovative strategies
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Features
Focus Group: Contribution to the future
Two-thirds of the funds polled for this month’s Focus Group said defined contribution (DC) represents the future for pension provision
