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NewsThe Tea Party's penny dreadful
A review of 'The Day After the Dollar Crashes: A Survival Guide for the Rise of the New World Order'
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NewsAnton van Nunen on why the Dutch watchdog needs a wake-up call
Instead of fixating on security, DNB should concede 100% certainty is unattainable
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NewsBrussels: The new Tower of Babel?
Pensions terminology is a baffling mishmash that must be simplified urgently
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NewsThe big European Social Security Administration idea
Governments have been rebounding between privatising social security and nationalising private pension schemes. Perhaps there is a third way.
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NewsThe Center for Strategic and International Studies on why policy matters
Ageing throws into question societies' ability to provide for the old without burdening the young.
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NewsDo investment innovations work?
The current crisis will be the mother of innovation, but it is time for a reality check.
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Opinion Pieces
Language barriers
Pensions terminology is a confusing mishmash and needs to be simplified. It is causing problems not just for legislators but for all those who are pushing towards comparability in the finance and pensions industries.
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Opinion Pieces
Hard target
Are target-date funds (TDFs) serving the needs of their participants? To answer this question, JP Morgan Asset Management carried out research comparing participants’ behaviour with the common industry assumptions that inform TDF design. The conclusion is that the latter should be more conservative than experts might think.
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Opinion Pieces
Richard Jackson, Center for Strategic and International Studies
“Make large reductions in the generosity of state retirement provision to stave off fiscal Armageddon”
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NewsShareholder activism: Salvation or death knell?
As F&C Asset Management fights attempts to replace its chairman, IPE asks what can be achieved with shareholder activism.
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NewsPoland: Ongoing pensions saga
The moves, countermoves and conflicting policies for reform of the supplementary pension system.
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NewsHungary: Death by 1,000 cuts
Thomas Escritt charts the government's plans to nationalise supplementary pension funds.
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NewsSpecial report on CEE
Krystyna Krzyzak untangles the CEE economies in the wake of the financial crisis.
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NewsThe NPRF: Ireland's political football
There is no doubt Ireland is facing an unprecedented sovereign debt crisis, says Jonathan Williams, but is cannibalising its own safety net the best way to solve the problem?
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NewsCardano on the future of pension fund liabilities
Kerrin Rosenberg and Theo Kocken draw startling conclusions about the future shape of pension fund liabilities
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Opinion Pieces
Svobodka Kostadinova and Nickolai Slavchev
For decades, countries in Europe and beyond have been rebounding between the two ideas of privatising social security and nationalising private pension schemes. Perhaps it is high time that the EU proposed a third way.
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Opinion Pieces
Deficits in focus
The EU has now made a significant concession to accommodate the demands made by eight CEE member states and Sweden in August last year for the incorporation of future pension funding shortfalls into national annual budget statistics. Their governments claimed current rules effectively punish them for having made reforms to their pension systems that involved channelling some contributions away from the state system and into private funds.
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Opinion Pieces
George Hoguet, State Street Global Advisors
As the industry ponders the medium-term implications of quantitative easing, sharp fiscal adjustment in Ireland, Greece and elsewhere, intervention by the Bank of Japan in the Japanese equity market, ‘currency wars’ and the future of the Obama presidency, they must confront a stark reality.
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Opinion Pieces
Public vote for change
The Republic victory at the November elections has huge implications for public pension funds. The results are, in fact, supportive of reform to retirement systems that are threatening to bankrupt several state and local administrations. A few newly elected governors advocate moving towards a hybrid pension model where at least ...
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Opinion Pieces
Toby Nangle, Director, Baring Asset Management
“Developing countries are positioned to enjoy a demographic dividend from now until 2030-35”
