All IPE articles in October 2014 (Magazine) – Page 3

  • Features

    Integrity matters

    October 2014 (Magazine)

    While they have been few in number, the various scandals at European pension funds have brought to light the need for clear and coherent codes of conduct for pension trustees and staff, writes Gail Moss

  • Country Report

    Spain: A pessimistic outlook for pensions

    October 2014 (Magazine)

    Spanish workers can expect to receive detailed information from their employers about their retirement outlook, according to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo. Few think this will boost supplementary retirement savings at a time when the government is reducing tax incentives

  • Features

    Race for solutions picks up pace

    October 2014 (Magazine)

    Incumbent managers have a natural advantage with mature pension funds in the provision of solution-type services, finds Pádraig Floyd

  • Features

    Pensions in the picture

    October 2014 (Magazine)

    Just three years after Europe’s pension fund representative bodies were successful in their proposal to create a separate occupational pensions stakeholder group within the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) – under the previous CEIOPS committee of pension and insurance supervisors a single stakeholder group covered both sectors – there is now a proposal to merge the two stakeholder groups. Although this will have to be ratified by the European Parliament, here are a few points that might help those involved understand why this issue really matters.

  • Features

    Post-crisis or pre-crisis?

    October 2014 (Magazine)

    History warns us that the next crisis is just around the corner. Arturo Bris outlines the shapes it is taking and what we can do to mitigate it

  • Features

    Not quite a revolution

    October 2014 (Magazine)

    The introduction of a new accounting framework in the UK and Ireland could lead to much less upheaval in pensions accounting than some plan sponsors fear, discovers Stephen Bouvier

  • Opinion Pieces

    A stinging rebuke

    October 2014 (Magazine)

    The private pension product sector is “persistently the worst-performing retail services market of all throughout the European Union”, according to the European Commission, as cited in a new report.

  • Opinion Pieces

    Woody at work

    October 2014 (Magazine)

    Woody is the villain of the new book The US Pension Crisis – What We Need to Do Now to Save America’s Pensions, by Ronald Ryan. According to Ryan, Woody is the “pension pencil” or “the weapon of mass destruction in financial America”, used since the 1990s for accounting gimmicks that conceal the real financial situation of pension funds.