Latest Special Reports – Page 71
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T2S: What happens next?
It will be some time before it becomes clear whether the Target2Securities platform will streamline cross-border transactions or spark unintended consequences with layers of national and international regulations
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Belgium: Second-pillar reforms back on the agenda
Discussions about restricting access to the second-pillar defined-contribution scheme are under way, while the pension industry association has called for improved risk management
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Denmark: A change of direction
Preparing for the introduction of Solvency II in 2016 and proposals expected to broaden pension participation are top priorities for the new government
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Special ReportFinland: Retirement age and contribution level changing
Ensuring the sustainability of the country’s pension system is the big challenge presently, with a particular focus on raising the retirement age and adjusting pension contributions
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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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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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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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Ireland: Attention shifts to DC as health of DB sector improves
After several large changes to Irish defined benefit regulation, bigger changes are on the horizon for the defined contribution sector, as the government seeks to boost pension coverage
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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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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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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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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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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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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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ABN Amro Pension Fund: Regime change
Geraldine Leegwater tells Mariska van der Westen how the ABN Amro Dutch pension fund project managed its transition to collective defined contribution
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Industry Comments: In your experience…
We asked leading industry figures: what can pension fund boards do better? How much time should boards spend on pension fund matters outside meetings and how much should they be paid?
