Pension System – Page 301
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NewsUK roundup: Royal Mail Pension Plan, Aon Hewitt, Sun Chemical
UK – Parliament has approved a bill that will see the state shoulder the burden of Royal Mail's £8.4bn (€9.3bn) pension deficit, as legislation to privatise the institution gathers pace.
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NewsUK roundup: Pensions bill, Sackers, NAPF
UK – Legislation for the switch from the retail price index (RPI) to the consumer price index (CPI) is likely to be more restrictive than initially anticipated, pension law firm Sackers has said.
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NewsUK roundup: Henderson, Gartmore, Paternoster, Rothesay Life, Club Vita, DWP
UK – Henderson Group has announced plans to acquire fund manager Gartmore for £335m (€403m), bringing to an end several months' worth of speculation surrounding the company's fate.
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NewsUK roundup: Russell Investments, Pension Protection Fund index
UK – Russell Investments has warned pension funds that lack of good governance on their part can lead to a loss of return.
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Special Report
Hungary: Death by 1000 cuts
Thomas Escritt charts the Hungarian government’s highly controversial plans to nationalise the country’s supplementary pension funds
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Special Report
Turkey: Crossroads of change
Turkey has undergone a tremendous growth cycle transforming it from basketcase to poster boy. Baldwin Berges comments on the reasons and the potential consequences
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Features
Resolving NEST’s relative unknowns
Until the recent annoucement by the UK government, there were a number of outstanding issues surrounding the National Employment Savings Trust. Jonathan Williams asks whether these have all been resolved
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Special ReportPoland: Ongoing pensions saga
Krystyna Krzyzak charts moves, countermoves and conflicting policies for reform of Poland’s supplementary pension system
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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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Features
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
