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Features
Research: Caution on the equity risk premium
In this second article in a series on a new study, Nick Lyster and Amin Rajan argue that artificially low interest rates have dragged the predictive power of the equity risk premium to near zero
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FeaturesInterview: The view from Copenhagen
Rachel Fixsen spoke to Carsten Stendevad about his vision for Denmark’s labour market pension fund, ATP, and his first two years as CEO
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Features
What can Europe do?
This year Italy will spend almost 15% of GDP on public pensions, higher than any other EU country, according to Eurostat
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Special Report
Italy: Lack of long-term vision threatens to stifle growth
In giving more freedom to employees to make pension choices, lawmakers are in danger of slowing down the growth of Italy’s second pillar
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Special ReportThe Netherlands - Entire pensions system under scrutiny
Following a nation-wide debate, the Dutch have set out to create a new pension system that will be sustainable and fair to all generations
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Special ReportNorway: Getting to grips with longer life expectancy
Pension providers are adapting to the challenges of people living longer and continuing low interest rates.
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Special Report
Portugal: Focus on sustainability
Reforming the country’s public pension system is an integral part of the government’s efforts to impose fiscal stability, as agreed in its bailout programme.
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Special Report
Spain: Low incentives to save threaten pensions sustainability
Spanish tax reforms lack measures to encourage pension savings by workers and contributions by employers, raising questions about the adequacy of future benefits
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Special Report
Sweden: New government, new reforms
Plans to split the regulation of insurance and pension companies have met with controversy, while reform to the AP fund system is to move ahead following years of deliberation
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Special ReportSwitzerland: Huge challenge to pass pension reform package
The final draft of the first and second-pillar reform package has been published but it could prove impossible to get through parliament in its present form
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Special ReportUK: A year of implementation
This year has seen the rushed implementation of the dramatic changes introduced to the UK defined contribution sector in 2014
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Features
Time to focus
Few would see an immediate parallel between the pension fund world and that of commercial aviation. Yet the story of the Douglas Corporation is interesting
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Special Report
Pension Fund Governance: In the eye of the beholder
Good governance is perhaps easier to identify from a distance than it is to put in place. By the very nature of decisions, its benefits for pension funds are easier to assess with the benefit of hindsight
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Asset Class Reports
Investing In US Equities: It’s the economy, stupid
The prospects for US equity markets depend largely on the performance of the underlying economy
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FeaturesIceland: A glacial pace of change
Pension funds have welcomed the long-awaited lifting of capital controls imposed during the financial crisis as they look to reallocate their assets
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Country Report
Italy's Second-Pillar: Pension fund competition
A close look at Italian second-pillar pension funds reveals structural imbalances and growing risks. For the many employees without a supplementary pension it is hard to decide what to do
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Features
US Equities: Elephant in the room
The US equity market is the elephant in the room for any institutional investor. It has also been a very excitable elephant with the S&P500 reaching all-time highs in the first half of 2015
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Features
Belgium’s pensions challenge
Belgium’s pension plan sponsors have struggled to adapt the International Accounting Standards (IAS) 19 accounting model
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Special Report
Tracking Railpen’s switch
Liam Kennedy asks Paul Trickett about the progress the Railpen Investments board is making in changing the way it invests
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Asset Class Reports
US Equities: Time to go?
Leaving the US equity party early may mean foregoing big gains, according to Christopher O’Dea
