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Dutch pension funds must tread a fine line between protecting funding levels and ensuring sufficient returns as they move to defined contribution
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MN’s main explanation for its voting intention is that Shell’s 20-30% liquefied natural gas growth doesn’t align with the Paris Climate Agreement
Only 10 pension funds are now still scheduled to make the transition to a new DC arrangement by 1 January 2025
ABP and PFZW suffered losses on their government bond portfolios, however, as Dutch and German yields rose
Many Dutch schemes plan to dial down investment risk to protect their funding ratios in the run-up to the pension transition
Smaller funds did comparatively better than large funds
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1 January 2025: that’s the day the first Dutch pension funds will move to a defined contribution (DC) system according to the new Pension Act. So the clock is ticking for politicians who still hope to reverse the pension changes, or give members a say on the mandatory conversion of defined benefit (DB) accruals to DC capital, the most controversial part of the pension reform.
MN’s main explanation for its voting intention is that Shell’s 20-30% liquefied natural gas growth doesn’t align with the Paris Climate Agreement
Only 10 pension funds are now still scheduled to make the transition to a new DC arrangement by 1 January 2025
ABP and PFZW suffered losses on their government bond portfolios, however, as Dutch and German yields rose
Many Dutch schemes plan to dial down investment risk to protect their funding ratios in the run-up to the pension transition
Smaller funds did comparatively better than large funds
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Dutch pension funds must tread a fine line between protecting funding levels and ensuring sufficient returns as they move to defined contribution
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1 January 2025: that’s the day the first Dutch pension funds will move to a defined contribution (DC) system according to the new Pension Act. So the clock is ticking for politicians who still hope to reverse the pension changes, or give members a say on the mandatory conversion of defined benefit (DB) accruals to DC capital, the most controversial part of the pension reform.