Pension System – Page 298
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Features
On the starting blocks
Kalpana Fitzpatrick assesses industry reforms to the UK’s fledgling National Employment Savings Trust
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Pensions cross borders
Gail Moss assesses the issue of pension provision for international workforces
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Special Report
PE hits CEE heights
Europe’s biggest LBO of 2009 was a CEE deal, reports Joseph Mariathasan. But it is difficult to see the region becoming a core emerging market private equity market like Asia
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Special Report
Convergence to emergence
There is much diversity in emerging Europe’s debt markets, finds Matthew Craig
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Special ReportDiversity revealed
The financial crisis and recession across Europe has uncovered fundamental differences between CEE economies and markets. Krystyna Krzyzak untangles what we have learned
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Special Report
Russia: The Wild East
By any measure, Russia is among the cheapest of the major emerging markets. Martin Delaney asks, is this an opportunity, or a sensible ‘wild east’ discount?
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Special ReportRussia: Untapped energy
Martin Delaney discovers that it is the growing middle class and its appetite to consume that drives Russian markets – not just oil and gas
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FeaturesFocus on payment
Kerrin Rosenberg and Theo Kocken draw startling conclusions about the future shape of pension fund liabilities
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Long-term investor, short-term horizon
Nina Röhrbein spoke with Truls Tollefsen, chief financial officer at Vital Forsikring, about the Norwegian insurer’s approach to managing its client’s long-term interests in the face of a strict annual guaranteed return objective
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A stitch in time
Predicting life expectancy is never easy. In addition to the more obvious factors that need to be considered, Swiss Re’s Daniel Ryan points out some less obvious but potentially beneficial ones
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US success story
The Thrift Savings Plan serves as something of a prototype for NEST. It has widened pension participation and demonstrated good returns, reports Maria Teresa Cometto
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NewsNAPF calls for career average pensions in UK local government schemes
UK – Career-average pensions are the way forward for the public sector, the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has argued in its submission to the Hutton Review.
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NewsNew PPF formula could double levy for some schemes, warns Barnett Waddingham
UK – More than one in five UK pension funds face a doubling of the levy it pays to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), Barnett Waddingham has warned.
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NewsBT cannot increase prices to solve pension deficit, regulator rules
UK – BT will not be allowed to raise wholesale charges for telecoms services in order to help recoup its pension fund deficit, telecoms regulator Ofcom has ruled.
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NewsUK roundup: NEST, Stewardship Code, Barnett Waddingham, Pension Capital Strategies, Towers Watson
UK – The introduction of the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) will reduce annual management costs across the industry, pensions minister Steve Webb has said.
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NewsReport claiming £100bn deficit for UK local government schemes 'misleading'
UK – Industry figures have attacked a report claiming that England's 81 local government pension schemes (LGPS) have seen their deficits increase to £100bn (€118bn).
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NewsSwitch to CPI could save British Airways scheme £900m
UK – British Airways could slice around £900m off the deficit in one of its defined benefit (DB) pension schemes by switching increases to pensions in payment from the retail price index (RPI) to the consumer price index (CPI).
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NewsUK roundup: LGPS, Cass Business School, Westler Foods, Aon Hewitt, BBC
UK – The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) should consider diversifying its investment portfolio to help mitigate the medium to long-term risks on its investments, according to a white paper from Cass Business School.
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Financial crisis has been good for pension funds, says Amonis
IPE AWARDS – The recent financial crisis has been good for pension funds, the chief executive of Amonis said during a panel at the IPE Awards seminar in Monaco.
