Pension System – Page 271
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NewsAuto-enrolment 'awareness' on the up despite scepticism on DC targets – report
Consumer, employer research from NEST highlights complications with saving, staging
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News
United Capital pulls out of deal to acquire Bulgarian pension fund Doverie
Insurer ‘open to offers’ on all pension fund businesses, including those in Austria
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NewsFriday people roundup
LGIM, Mercer, Lord Hutton, Redington, Ontario Teachers, Financial Reporting Council, AIMA, Sackers
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NewsPension fund trustees 'lacking in confidence', survey shows
Lack of skills to blame, according to Mercer’s Pensions Governance Survey
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Features
Time to pool resources
Leen Preesman asks the CEOs of PGGM and PKA about their co-operation plans and about the development of supplementary pensions in Europe
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Governance structure among UK pension funds' top concerns – survey
Russell survey finds that 70% of larger schemes in process of changing structure
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Features
Phoenix from the ashes
Antoni Canals tells Nina Roehrbein about his views on diversification at Pensions Caixa 30, one of Spain’s most diversified occupational pension funds
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Interviews
Do you invest in real assets?
Nina Röhrbein speaks with France’s ERAFP, Denmark’s PFA and the Netherlands’ PGGM
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Features
Command, control and organisation
Gail Moss outlines the duties of the investment committee chair – one of the most influential positions in a pension fund
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Nominal or real? Or best of both?
Michel Iglesias del Sol and Gerard Roelofs assess the wider implications of FTK2
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Country ReportThe Netherlands: Little difference between the two
While they may seem to offer better inflation-proof pension benefits, careful analysis shows that real contracts offer little more protection than nominal ones, argue Kees Bouwman, Theo Kocken and Bart Oldenkamp
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Country Report
UK: Buy now – spread the premium
David Barker reviews deferred premium buyouts, a development in the insurance market that allows employers to spread the cost of a buyout
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Features
Clwyd: Cultivating the difference
Nina Roehrbein speaks with Philip Latham, pension fund manager at Clwyd Pension Fund, about its unusual asset allocation strategy
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Country Report
The Netherlands: A complex improvement
Pension experts think that the new Dutch pension governance legislation is complicated. But on balance they agree that it will significantly improve the representation of all stakeholders, according to Leen Preesman
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Country Report
UK: Filling the contract-based governance vacuum
Phil Duly surveys the issues surrounding DC pension governance
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Country Report
UK: Divorce can be costly
Ian Fraser finds that Scottish independence would create a host of complications for newly created cross-border pension funds. But neither the London nor Edinburgh governments seem willing to engage with the issues
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Country Report
UK: The DC information gap
The growing significance of defined contribution pensions means trustees should be prepared to serve members with better information on retirement income options, writes Ros Altman
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Country Report
The Netherlands: Decision time
Cabinet endorsement of the new FTK proposals means Dutch pension funds must soon choose between a nominal or a real pension framework. But some are holding out for a hybrid option, writes Nina Roehrbein
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Country Report
UK: Spot the difference
Mel Duffield notes a positive reaction to TPR’s 2013 Funding Statement, but argues that it remains to be seen what approach the regulator will adopt in practice
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Country Report
UK: Soft but firm
The UK Pensions Regulator has a new statutory objective and is encouraging funds to adopt an integrated approach to risk. Jonathan Williams outlines the implications
