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  • Ireland: A long game in pensions
    Country Report

    Ireland: A long game in pensions

    February 2010 (Magazine)

    Christine Senior assesses the roller-coaster of Irish pensions legislation and regulation

  • Country Report

    Ireland: New model vital

    February 2010 (Magazine)

    Irish pension schemes must find new strategies to cope with effects of ageing population, says Conor Daly

  • Country Report

    Ireland: At a crossroads

    February 2010 (Magazine)

    Jerry Moriarty, director of policy at the Irish Association of Pension Funds, assesses the country’s pension challenges

  • Country Report

    Ireland: Short private pensions reprieve

    February 2010 (Magazine)

    Stephen Lalor and Amanda James on radical changes to public and private sector pensions

  • Country Report

    Ireland: More rivers to cross

    February 2010 (Magazine)

    Philip Shier of Hewitt Associates looks ahead to another difficult year for Irish pension funds

  • Country Report

    Ireland: Strategic and tactical

    February 2010 (Magazine)

    Nyree Stewart assesses the National Pension Reserve Fund’s strategic deployment to recapitalise two domestic banks, and its move towards more dynamic decision making

  • Country Report

    Ireland: On the road to diversity

    February 2010 (Magazine)

    The pummelling suffered by Irish pension funds in the recent financial crisis is encouraging them to review their investment risk strategies, writes Nina Röhrbein

  • Country Report

    Ireland: Subtle changes needed

    February 2010 (Magazine)

    The managed fund sector recovered some of its disastrous 2008 losses over the course of last year. Nina Röhrbein assesses the state of play

  • Interviews

    YouTube not yet the communication star

    February 2010 (Magazine)

    On The Record How do you communicate with members?

  • Military timing softens crisis blow
    Features

    Military timing softens crisis blow

    February 2010 (Magazine)

    Reeta Paakkinen spoke to Caner Öner, senior adviser at Oyak, the €5.6bn Turkish military pension fund

  • Features

    Follow your members

    February 2010 (Magazine)

    Social media is boosting communication between pension funds and members, and among members themselves, says Gail Moss

  • Features

    PP Pension: Steady as she goes

    February 2010 (Magazine)

    The €796m PP Pension fund is known for consistently producing excellent returns. But after a recent dip in performance, the newly appointed CEO Viveka Ekberg (pictured) and CIO Cecelia Thomasson Blomquist aim to re-establish the fund’s good returns without compromising on its winning philosophy, writes Pirkko Juntunen

  • News

    Nominal GDP swaps 'could be key to DC guarantee'

    2010-01-14T15:20:00Z

    [16:20 CET 14-01] EUROPE – Officials at the Bank of Italy have been working on a proposal to create a public swap-based return guarantee for members of defined contribution funds.

  • News

    Ten confirmed to join Swiss Ascoop fund

    2009-12-18T15:50:00Z

    [16:50 CET 18-12] SWITZERLAND – The Ascoop spin-off fund to be created next year will be named Symova and will initially see 10 companies join it.

  • News

    Pensions threatened by six-hour daily longevity increase

    2009-11-20T15:50:00Z

    GLOBAL - People are gaining on average six hours per day in life expectancy, which dramatically highlights the need for pensions solutions, delegates were told at an IPE Awards Seminar keynote speech on living with longevity.

  • News

    OECD calls on Ireland to shift public sector pensions to DC

    2009-11-05T14:30:00Z

    [15:30 CET 05-11] IRELAND – Ireland could reduce its budget deficit by introducing a combination of “major reforms” to public sector pensions, according to the OECD. These could include moving new entrants to a defined contribution (DC) scheme rather than adding them to existing defined benefit plans.

  • News

    Auto-enrolment could boost UK DC assets to £900bn

    2009-10-23T13:30:00Z

    [14:30 CEST 23-10] UK – The planned introduction of auto-enrolment in UK pensions could increase defined contribution (DC) assets from £600bn (€654bn) to as much as £900bn by 2050, according to the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI).

  • News

    Netherlands tops Mercer poll of pension regimes

    2009-10-15T15:15:00Z

    [16:15 CEST 15-10] GLOBAL - The Netherlands has come out top in a new global index rating pension systems which assesses the adequacy, sustainability and integrity of regimes, closely followed by Australia and then Sweden.

  • News

    Six UK DC schemes hit pension quality mark

    2009-10-15T12:30:00Z

    [13:20 CEST 15-10] UK - Six more UK defined contribution (DC) schemes have been awarded the new Pension Quality Mark by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).

  • News

    Today’s babies to become 100 year-old pensioners

    2009-10-05T14:00:00Z

    [15:00 CEST 05-10] GLOBAL - A new longevity study has predicted that most babies born today will live to celebrate their 100th birthdays in many industrialised countries.