Pension System – Page 300
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Country Report
Spain: Eggs in one basket
Jim Robinson comments on the asset allocation of Spain’s €58bn social security reserve fund
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Features
Challenging beginnings
Liam Kennedy asked Hugo Lasat, CEO of Belgium’s Amonis, about the challenge of running a pension fund after a career in asset management and private banking
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FeaturesAlign your interests
Gail Moss assesses how pension fund boards and trustees can make sure their interests are in line with those of their asset managers
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Country ReportSpain: Where to diversify?
Gail Moss charts the asset allocations of Spanish pension entities and notes the increase in interest in risk management
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Pitfalls of fiduciary management
Christiaan Tromp outlines the necessary criteria for successful and long-lived fiduciary management partnerships
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NewsUK roundup: Pensions Regulator, Lehman Brothers, CBI, Mercer, KPMG
UK – The Pensions Regulator has issued a financial support direction against six insolvent Lehman Brothers subsidiaries, ordering them to supply funds to the companies' UK pension scheme.
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NewsUK roundup: IMA, Legal & General, UNPRI, FTSE 350
UK – The Investment Management Association (IMA) has warned that new proposals to regulate the over-the-counter derivatives market could end up transferring all the risk to the end investor.
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NewsCPI switch could decrease deferred liabilities by 7.9% for a typical UK scheme
UK – Calculating pension increases according to the consumer price index (CPI) would reduce liabilities for deferred members by around 7.9% for a typical UK scheme, according to PensionsFirst.
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FeaturesPooling – how it works
Gail Moss outlines the essential elements of multinational pension and asset pooling, and how smaller pension funds can get in on the act
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The Netherlands: A plan for pensions
At the invitation of IPE’s Dutch sister publication IPN in June, writes Mariska van der Westen, over 80 pension funds and consultants joined experts to discuss the challenges facing the Dutch pension sector.
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The Netherlands: Not an easy game
Anton van Nunen examines why pension fund-owned fiduciary managers have been less successful than other competitors
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The Netherlands: Who will take up the challenge?
It is widely hoped that the introduction of the multi-OPF will offer smaller corporate funds a means to survive in a complex investment environment. Mariska van der Westen asks who will partake?
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Country ReportThe Netherlands: Still a popular choice
Fiduciary management is still gaining ground in the Netherlands, and pension funds believe themselves to be in control despite delegating to a one-stop shop service provider, according to the third annual fiduciary management survey of 26 Dutch pension funds of our Dutch sister publication IPN. The funds vary in size ...
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The Netherlands: A new Dutch IORP
Wilfried Mulder and Hans van Meerten outline the Netherlands’ planned new fund vehicle, the PPI
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Country ReportUK: A pension coalition
The UK’s new coalition government was as quick to tackle the tricky issue of pensions policy as it was surprisingly quick in its formation. Gill Wadsworth outlines the issues under consideration
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UK: Building the NEST
Announced in the Pension Act of 2007, the National Employee Savings Trust is a work in progress. Nina Röhrbein reports
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UK: Fund in the news
British Airways (BA) completed a £1.3bn (€1.58bn) pension buy-in transaction with Rothesay Life, the insurance entity of Goldman Sachs, in the summer, which will approximately cover 20% of the pensioner liabilities of its Airways Pension Scheme (APS).
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UK: The promise of the future
The regulator, associations and funds themselves are increasingly grappling with the issue of defined contribution pensions, writes Nina Röhrbein
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UK: Good pensions now – please!
Adrian Waddingham, founding partner of consulting actuaries Barnett Waddingham, sets out his pension priorities for the new government
