Pension System – Page 44
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AnalysisAnalysis: Can UK plan sponsors benefit from Mansion House reforms’ surpluses?
Consultants share mixed views on whether pension fund sponsors could benefit from surpluses
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NewsIPE Top 1000: European pension assets drop to €8.95trn
Second-largest reduction in assets held by pan-European pension funds in IPE’s annual research exercise
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NewsUK roundup: BA pension fund appoints Redington as consultant
Plus: Risk of new generation of gender inequality, says LCP
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NewsSweden’s AP3 generates 5.5% in H1 after holding tight to strategy
Listed equities’ surge almost entirely responsible for buffer fund’s positive return for January to June
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Special ReportSpain: New regulation introduces lifestyling
Government pushes through legislation package before elections last July
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Country ReportFrance’s new pension product smashes through target
Assets managed by PER supplementary pension products could reach €200bn by 2026
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Country ReportNew pension rules set to transform France
After much opposition, profound changes to the retirement system take effect this month
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Special ReportGermany: Fighting for innovation
The three-party coalition faces important decisions in coming months to reconcile differences over its planned reforms to all three pillars of the pension system
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Special ReportFrance: Macron’s major pension reforms take effect
September sees the enactment of controversial retirement reforms passed by presidential decree earlier this year, bringing 42 occupational regimes together
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Special ReportItaly: Government eyes pension reform despite lack of resources
Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government wants to lower retirement age and secure retirement income for young workers, but it faces an uphill battle against inflation
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Special ReportUK: Encouraging UK growth through consolidation
The UK government is pursuing plans to leverage pension assets to boost economic growth while generating best returns for members
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Opinion PiecesCambridge and Westminster: a tale of two pension schemes
The Houses of Parliament and Cambridge University are two venerable British institutions. But the differences in how they run their pension arrangements illustrate the contrast between the UK-style pooled liability-driven investment (LDI) and a more traditional form of pension investing, no longer as popular in the UK but still common elsewhere.
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Special ReportPortugal: Social security surplus funds pension boost
The Socialist government aims to reduce pensioner poverty but faces considerable demographic hurdles
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Opinion PiecesEurope escaped the Great Retirement Boom but watch out for the crunch
Continental Europe appears to have largely escaped the trend known in the US as the ‘Great Retirement Boom’, where an economically comfortable cohort of 50 to 64-year-olds has retreated from work in the post-COVID period.
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Special ReportIceland: Government faces pension fund ire over housing bond controversy
Pension funds have welcomed a relaxation in foreign investment rules but would have preferred a more liberal regime
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Special ReportNorway: Public-sector pensions consultation set for autumn
Occupational pensions could form part of a new review following last year’s Pension Commission report
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Special ReportIreland: All systems go for national auto-enrolment
Irish government aims to launch auto-enrolment retirement system in 2024
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Special ReportSweden: FTN’s large mandate overshadows Alecta’s position
Government authority sets out first tender in its bid to ensure pension funds access to quality funds to provide safer and higher pensions
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Special ReportSwitzerland: Heated debate ahead of second-pillar referendum
The workplace pension system reform must clear the final hurdle of a national referendum and Pensionskassen will have to start to follow new guidelines on ESG
