Latest on Regulation & Reform – Page 254
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Denmark's F&P decries lack of capital requirements in IORP II Directive
New prudential framework should create level playing field, pensions industry association says
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Dutch coalition party blasts government-backed mortgage bonds
Market should do without government backing and come up with its own hedging arrangements, MP says
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NEST helps make UK pension system more durable, study shows
Australia keeps position as having world’s most sustainable system
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Dutch pharmacists' scheme attributes 0.7% loss to defensive strategy
Watchdog would reject riskier investment policy, board says
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Clients less satisfied with custodians as pressures mount, survey shows
Pictet topples RBC to take top position in R&M Consultants’ global custodian ranking
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UK roundup: ITV Pension Scheme, TPR, JLT deficit update
ITV Pension Scheme secures asset-backed partnership, sees deficit drop by £50m
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EC should spur demand for long-term investment, says Finland's TELA
Association touts impact of Finnish government subsidies on cost of project financing
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A few reactions…
The leaked draft of the IORP II Directive has generally received positive reactions from experts in the European pensions industry.
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IORP II: Not bad but could do better
Jeremy Woolfe on the latest skirmish between Brussels and EU member states on the thorny issue of pensions
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Dutch Pensions Federation warns of IORP II 'communications overkill'
Association says demand-based communications are most effective
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Swiss pension funds, actuaries at loggerheads over proposed reforms
Associations set out conflicting views on government’s Altersvorsorge 2020 reform plan
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PensionsEurope decries CEE 'attack' on second-pillar pension systems
Industry group calls on Brussels to act before contagion takes hold
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Industry welcomes IORP II despite concerns over risk-evaluation rules
Commentators voice concerns that risk-evaluation rules could lead to quantitative measures ‘through the back door’
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UK pensions industry cautiously welcomes charge-cap proposal
Oppostion welcomes implementation of ‘Labour policy’
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IORP II to require assessment of environmental, resource risk of investments
Details of risk evaluation for pensions no longer to be decided by EIOPA but Commission, according to Directive
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NewsUK government publishes DC charge-cap guidelines, transparency rules
Qualifying auto-enrolment schemes to see default fund charge capped at 75 basis points
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Retention of full funding requirement 'opposite to EC’s objective'
European Commission says it wants to ensure ‘sound provision of services’
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IORP II to remove EU member states' ability to cap equity exposure
New investment guidelines to prohibit member states from blocking investment in assets with long-term growth profile
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NewsStress tests thwarting German schemes' equity investments, experts warn
Pensionskassen admit to ‘wrong’ asset allocations, blame regulation for ‘strangling occupational pensions’
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NewsCommission moves to increase transparency of infrastructure loan market
Brussels aiming to attract increased private capital to market by offering central database of ‘comprehensive credit statistics’
