Pension System – Page 279
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Features
Portfolio impact
Gail Moss outlines the concept of impact investing and how it relates to mission-based investing, which is often used in the foundation sector
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Country Report
Spain:Looking ahead
Cécile Sourbes interviews Angel Martínez-Aldama, director of the Spanish investment and pension fund association (INVERCO)
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Portugal: Serious challenges
The 2011 nationalisation of pension assets reduced Portugal’s supplementary pension savings by a third, writes Gail Moss. Development of the second pillar remains a priority
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Spain: Crisis philosophy
Gail Moss finds that Spanish pension funds are confident about their ability to weather the storms of financial and economic turmoil
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Interviews
On the Record: Govvies in decline
What is your strategy in developed market sovereign bonds?
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Features
Squeezing out the last drops
Brendan Maton assesses the favourability of tax-transparent Dublin and Luxembourg pooled funds as a way to avoid being ensnared by US withholding tax
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Features
Investing in solar and student loans
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Hans Wilhelm Korfmacher, managing director at WPV about the pension fund’s highly diversified investment strategy.
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NewsDiscount rate remains stumbling block for Dutch pensions package
NETHERLANDS – Industry figures question credibility of 'ultimate forward rate'.
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Pension asset-to-GDP ratios for OECD countries up 5% over decade
GLOBAL – Despite increase, nearly two-thirds of countries reported ratios above 20%.
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NewsEquity rally props up Dutch funding, finds DNB
NETHERLANDS – Figures from regulator show rise in coverage ratio from strengthened equity markets.
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NewsPension fund for Dutch notaries to reconsider its independence
NETHERLANDS – Funding ratio drops to 89% despite 10.3% return on investments in 2011.
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Falling mortality rates to increase liabilities by 1%, actuaries warn
NETHERLANDS – Dutch Actuarial Society revises mortality estimates for 2010-60 period.
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UK: Challenges ahead
Pete Drewienkiewicz outlines the broader range of tools available to pension funds to hedge liability risk
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UK: How to aim for the impossible
Rudyard Ekindi, director at NEST, discusses how the scheme hopes to achieve long-term and strong performance
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The Netherlands: Anxiety management
Nina Röhrbein gauges views on how the likely changes to Dutch pensions will affect investment and risk strategies
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UK: Bucking the trend
Jonathan Williams reviews the Strathclyde Pension Fund, a defined benefit scheme which is still open to new members as well as net cashflow positive.
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UK: Contributions and deficits to increase
Nick Bunch reviews the findings of LCP’s nineteenth annual report on the UK’s defined benefit landscape
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The Netherlands: PPI to spur DC growth
The Dutch affinity with defined benefit schemes has limited the take-up of defined contribution, writes Nina Röhrbein. Could the PPI vehicle change this?
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The Netherlands: Fault lines
Leen Preesman and Mariska van der Westen read the runes of Dutch politics, which will be the crucial factor in determining the future of the country’s occupational pension system
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The Netherlands: From FTK to FBK
Jean Frijns, Guus Boender and Theo Kocken inspired a lively debate at the IPNederland conference in June. Leen Preesman and Mariska van der Westen report
