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Special ReportUK: Funding challenges amid continued market uncertainty
The UK’s pension regulator emphasises the need for schemes to focus on long-term planning, transparency and risk management
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Top 1000: European pension assets top €8trn
IPE publishes its 2020 Top 1000 European Pension Funds guide
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Special ReportTop 1000 Pension Funds 2020: Europe’s €8trn pension pot
This year’s 7.25% increase in overall assets for IPE’s Top 1000 European Pension Funds 2020 sample to €8.3trn must inevitably be seen in light of 2019’s strong year for asset returns and 2020’s tumultuous COVID-19-related market crash. By comparison, the overall asset increase in 2019’s survey was 6.93%.
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Special ReportAustria: New government, old dilemmas
The new coalition government has made slow progress towards pension reform
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Special ReportBelgium: Steady as she goes
Improvements to the country’s pension system have continued in the face of persistent political problems and the global health crisis
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Special ReportDenmark: Pension firms in general good health
The Danish financial regulator concludes that pension companies are well-capitalised following a three-month examination of solvency levels
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Special ReportFinland: Tripartite blueprint set to unify pensions
The government pushes ahead with plans for the most extensive reform of the public and private pensions systems in decades
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Special ReportFrance: Reforms freeze in face of pandemic
Economic damage inflicted by COVID-19 halts plans to unify France’s 42 second-pillar schemes
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Special ReportGermany: Saving occupational pension schemes
The second pillar is being targeted with a series of regulatory and political measures to keep it intact
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Special ReportIceland: Focus turns to the homefront
Pensions funds heed a call by the government to concentrate on domestic investment to boost the economy
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Special ReportIreland: Pandemic delivers policy blow
The roll-out of auto-enrolment has been postponed and the IORP II Directive is expected to be implemented by the end of this year
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Special ReportItaly: Pandemic paves the way for the next phase of reform
Italian policymakers will be under pressure to upgrade the three-pillar pension system over the coming years
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Special ReportNetherlands: Social partners agree on switch to DC pensions
A new pension contract, aimed at sharing risk and reward across the generations, has been agreed after years of negotiation
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Special ReportNorway: Sustainability and retirement age under review
The government convenes a panel of experts to assess the state of the country’s pension industry in light of the 2011 reforms
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Special ReportPortugal: Low savings rates heighten long-term challenges
A new flexible pension regime will encourage members to retire early
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Special ReportSpain: COVID-19 lays further obstacle on road to reform
Pandemic disrupts the latest government’s progress towards reform of the country’s pension system
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Special ReportSweden: Refining the new IORP II regime
Sweden adds extra elements to its IORP II implementation and transitional measures to address the fall in asset values resulting from COVID-19
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Special ReportSwitzerland: Little by little
A first round of consultations on the second pillar, together with a reform of the third pillar, point to potentially bigger changes ahead
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Special ReportUK: Consolidation remains controversial
Guidance on the long-awaited legislation setting out a regulatory framework for superfunds is finally released
