Pension System – Page 275
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Switzerland: Magic number crunching
Swiss pension funds have enjoyed a major recovery in the funding levels over the past months. But the fundamental problems remain, writes Barbara Ottawa
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Switzerland: Rights and responsibilities
Nina Rohrbein analyses the consequences for Swiss pension funds, their advisers and asset managers of the referendum on executive pay
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Turkey: Pensions growth ahead
Reform to channel severance payments to the workplace supplementary pensions would mean exponential growth for the Turkish pension sector, writes Reeta Paakkinen
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Turkey: Growth assets for the future
Pension providers are capitalising on recent liberalisation to launch gold and corporate bond funds, says Reeta Paakkinen
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Confusion reigns supreme
The Cypriot bailout may have only been a drop in the ocean compared with the Greek rescue package. But, as Jonathan Williams finds, lack of detail is a major headache for the local provident funds even three months later
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The coup de grace
Roxane McMeeken met with John Kyriakopoulos, the man whose huge bet on Greek bonds paid off dramatically for the country’s largest pension institution
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Interviews
On the Record: What is your credit strategy?
CWPS (Ireland), VER (Finland), Vopak (Netherlands)
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Fallout from Ruslan and Cyprisia
Iain Morse assesses the consequences of the Cyprus bailout for the banking and wider financial services industries
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Keeping hold of deferred members
Pension funds need a robust strategy to keep track of deferred members and to communicate with them in the right way. Gail Moss reports
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Turkey: Diversification prizes
Private pension asset growth will lead to opportunities for global custodians, according to Iain Morse
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Satellites in orbit
Christoph Ryter, CEO of the Swiss retail group Migros’ Pensionkasse, explains his fund’s diversification strategy to Nina Röhrbein
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France: Adapting to difficult times
Flexibility to move in and out of assets is important for investors navigating choppy economic waters. Gail Moss reports
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France: Agirc-Arrco reserves will be saved
Patrick Poizat, board member of GIE Agirc-Arrco and of Agirc federation, tells Alain Lémoine of his optimism about the future of the fund following reforms in March
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France: Déjà vu for Agirc-Arrco
The March 2013 agreement on Agirc-Arrco retirement reform is a relief for asset managers, and could staunch years of withdrawals by 2014, says Alain Lémoine
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Nordic Region: Corporates flying high
Corporate pension funds have consistently outperformed others in the pensions industry, and they want more freedom to set contributions, Pasi Strömberg tells Reeta Paakkinen
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France: Paving the way for responsible investment
The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites has undergone a radical strategy reshape following the 2010 pension reform and volatile equity markets in 2011. And 2013 will be action-packed, writes Cécile Sourbes
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France: The search for yield
Richard Bruyère presents the results of Image & Finance’s 12th annual research covering the institutional market
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Nordic Region: Funds go global
Despite a positive 2012, the country’s pension funds are allocating more investments beyond the troubled borders of the euro-zone as they seek to improve returns, says Reeta Paakkinen
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Nordic Region: What one hand taketh…
Changes to discount rates will favour Norwegian pension sponsors, writes Rachel Fixsen. Yet the introduction of dynamic mortality tables will require an increase in reserves
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Nordic Region: A lone rider?
Is the closure of Swedish energy company Vattenfall’s pension foundation a one-off or the shape of things to come? Nina Röhrbein reports
