All IPE articles in September 2020 (Magazine)
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Country ReportNetherlands: New paths
The new Dutch pension agreement could unleash a new wave of thinking around risk taking and portfolio construction, with strong similarities to the way some Nordic schemes are run
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Country ReportNetherlands: View from the top
Gerard van Olphen, chair of the executive board at APG, discussed the agreement with Liam Kennedy at IPE’s Summer Pension Congress
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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 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 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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Opinion PiecesGuest Viewpoint: The growing influence of index providers
Pension funds have shifted assets worth hundreds of billions from actively managed funds to passive funds in recent years. In doing so, they are part of an ongoing money mass-migration from high-fee active funds to low-fee index funds.
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Opinion PiecesTake from the young to give to the old
For many years, the Dutch pension system was considered one of the world’s best – it was top in class with Denmark in the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index annual study last year.
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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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Opinion PiecesA long sunset on a fragile model
The ECB’s move in September 2019 to lower rates and restart corporate bond purchases was a clear red warning signal to defined benefit pension funds and other liability-driven investors.
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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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InterviewsStrategically speaking: Saker Nusseibeh, Federated Hermes
At first sight, the two sides of Federated Hermes seem culturally distinct. Federated is a staid, family-controlled, and Pittsburgh-based money manager with a history of providing services to bank trust departments. Hardly a hotbed of ESG or shareholder engagement, you might think.
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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 ReportEU sustainable finance: Impact uncertain
New EU climate benchmarks are getting industry take-up but not everyone is embracing them
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Asset Class ReportsEquities – Pandemic winners and losers
COVID-19 is proving a powerful catalyst for social and technological change
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Opinion PiecesThe post-pandemic economy could be more of the same
There seems to be a consensus that COVID-19 will bring momentous change to the global economic order. Commentators point to several developments to support this idea.
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Country ReportNetherlands: Is Dutch pensions reform EU-proof?
There are reasons to think that the new Dutch pension contract could fall foul of European law
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Special ReportEU sustainable finance: The promise of disclosures
New EU sustainability reporting requirements for investors could drive companies to improve disclosures. But making the new standards useful for end-investors could still be a challenge
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Opinion PiecesMaking a difference
“This time is different”. Such claims were rightly skewered in a well-known book by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. But with the benefit of recent experience it should be clear that their argument did not go far enough.
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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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InterviewsInterview: Dambisa Moyo on the geopolitics of global debt
When asked a simple question about global debt, economist and author Dambisa Moyo introduces a far more complex discussion about geopolitics.
