All articles by Reeta Paakkinen – Page 3
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Country Report
Nordic Region: The search continues
Reeta Paakkinen finds Finnish pension investors continuing to seek alternatives to traditional equities and fixed income
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Country Report
Nordic Region: A dwindling band
Finland’s government is looking to improve the regulatory framework for corporate pension funds, according to Reeta Paakkinen
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News
Varma appoints replacement for retiring chief executive Vuoria
Finland’s largest mutual pension insurance company promotes from within
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Ilmarinen to ramp up private equity, real estate investment
Finnish pensions firm looking for infrastructure investments in Finland, overseas
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Country Report
Turkey: Growth assets for the future
Pension providers are capitalising on recent liberalisation to launch gold and corporate bond funds, says Reeta Paakkinen
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Turkey: Pensions growth ahead
Reform to channel severance payments to the workplace supplementary pensions would mean exponential growth for the Turkish pension sector, writes Reeta Paakkinen
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Funds go global
Despite a positive 2012, the country’s pension funds are allocating more investments beyond the troubled borders of the euro-zone as they seek to improve returns, says Reeta Paakkinen
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Corporates flying high
Corporate pension funds have consistently outperformed others in the pensions industry, and they want more freedom to set contributions, Pasi Strömberg tells Reeta Paakkinen
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Nordic Region: Beyond Finland
Reeta Paakkinen spoke to Finnish pension fund chiefs about their changing asset allocation in the face of low yields and the euro-zone crisis
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Country Report
The Mediterranean: Injection of enthusiasm
Smart tax reforms look likely to boost Turkey’s small supplementary pension sector, which is predicted to reach €100bn by 2023, according to Reeta Paakkinen
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News
Stock market uncertainty hits Finnish pension funds in first half
Several of country's larger pension funds report near-zero first-half returns.
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Country Report
The Mediterranean: Go figure
Reeta Paakkinen assesses growing calls for liberalisation to Turkey’s private pension investment regime as interest rates drop to single figures
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Country Report
The Mediterranean: Go figure
Reeta Paakkinen assesses growing calls for liberalisation to Turkey’s private pension investment regime as interest rates drop to single figures
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News
Hedge funds improve risk/return ratios for pension insurance firms
Research for Finnish Centre for Pensions says regulators must become better educated about asset class.
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Country Report
Nordic Region: Debt crisis shifts allocation focus
Reeta Paakkinen assesses asset allocation trends among Finland’s pension institutions
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News
Pension scheme for Finnish church ups private equity, real estate exposure
Fund loses 50,000 members in days after Christian Democrat Party chairwoman voices views on gays, religion.
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News
Finland's Etera targets SRI and green property
FINLAND - Etera, the Finnish mutual pension insurance company, has signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) and has joined Finland's Green Building Council (FIGBC).
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Turkey's largest pension scheme launches BRIC investment fund
TURKEY – Anadolu Hayat ve Emeklilik, Turkey’s largest pension fund in terms of assets under management, has launched a fund investing in companies active in BRIC countries.
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Finland's effective retirement age up faster than expected
FINLAND – Effective retirement age in Finland has increased more rapidly than expected when the pension reform of 2005 was being planned, lending support to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health's goal to increase expected effective retirement age by three years before 2025.
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Norway mulls fee cap for Pension Fund Global after 'reprehensible' contract
NORWAY – The Norwegian government is considering the introduction of an upper limit for management fees for external managers of its NOK2.9trn (€365bn) Government Pension Fund Global after a contract with no limit was branded "reprehensible".