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Opinion PiecesNasty problems can be overcome
The Nobel laureate Bill Sharpe once called defined contribution (DC) decumulation the “nastiest, hardest problem in finance”.
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InterviewsStrategically Speaking: Insight Investment
Insight Investment’s asset management roots are in the structural shift over the past two decades to closed-book defined benefit (DB) pensions in the UK and elsewhere.
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InterviewsHow we run our money: KLP
Aage Schaanning (pictured), chief financial officer at Norway’s Kommunal Landspensjonskasse (KLP), talks to Carlo Svaluto Moreolo about the fund’s risk framework
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Country ReportFrance: U-turn for FRR
COVID-19 has put paid to the FRR pension reserve fund’s planned transition to a new status and investment model
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Country ReportFrance: Steady workplace demand
New occupational pension savings plans are taking root, despite the lack of a regulatory push from pension reforms
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Special ReportValue and Costs: UK workplace pensions – measuring the unmeasurable?
The UK’s FCA is seeking feedback from the financial services industry on its plans to work out a definition of value for money
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FeaturesPensions first in move toward UK mandatory climate risk reporting
Mandatory reporting in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) has long been a topic of discussion in the UK. It is almost hard to believe that a definitive move to make it policy is only a few months fresh.
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AnalysisUK DB: Pushback over UK proposals for ‘one size fits all’ funding code
Not long before the UK went into its COVID-19 lockdown this March, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) launched the first of a two-stage consultation on a revised defined benefit (DB) funding code.
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Opinion PiecesLetter from US: All eyes on CalPERS as CIO quits
The $405bn (€342bn) California Public Employee’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is the bellwether of US public pension funds.
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FeaturesAccounting Matters - UK DB pension schemes: One step forward, two steps back
As sometimes happens with Easter, one of the surveys of the UK pensions accounting landscape from consultants Lane Clark & Peacock (LCP) was later than usual. And, like an Easter egg, this keenly awaited overview of the net funding position of FTSE 100 defined benefit (DB) pension schemes comes in two halves.
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NewsSwitzerland roundup: Swiss Life launches infra options
Plus: SFAMA, AMP to merge; Clarius Capital starts 1e plans
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NewsPension funds rush to move UK derivatives contracts to EU
European pension funds will be allowed to continue using London-based clearing houses until at least June 2022
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Higher risks to retirement security need coordinated effort: report
Natixis CEO: “Crises we are experiencing today will have long-range implications for global retirement security.”
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NewsPPF drops multi-year levy approach given COVID-19 uncertainty
Flags possible ‘substantial’ effects of COVID-19 on levy scores for 2022/23 payment period
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Iceland’s pension funds sign sustainable investment declaration
Using capital properly determines the future of generations to come, financial firms agree
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Dutch minister to prevent ‘unnecessary’ pension cuts
The minimum required funding ratio for pension funds that was reduced from 100% to 90% for 2019/20 has now been extend to 2021
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IAS 1 faces UK endorsement challenge, LAPFF warns FRC
Once the UK leaves EU institutions at the end of this year, accounting standards will be handled by a new UK endorsement body
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NewsPandemic could slash Swedish pensions, warns Skandia
Pension provider says pandemic risks reducing future pensions by several thousand kronor per month
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NewsKPA unit plumps for IORP II conversion, parent Folksam weighs options
Smaller arm of municipal pensions operator sees conversion as route to best pension conditions
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NewsLGIM launches ‘one stop solution’ for smaller DB schemes
‘NavGuide’ offers complete investment service from portfolio design through to buyout
