All Country Reports – Page 30
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Country ReportPensions In Italy: Auto enrolment all’italiana
A number of Italian pension funds have implemented automatic enrolment. Is this the answer to Italy’s low coverage problem? Carlo Svaluto Moreolo investigates
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Pensions In Italy: New alternatives exist
Most Italian pension funds are new to alternative investment. However, the wind is changing, with several pension funds making the first significant allocations, writes Carlo Svaluto Moreolo
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Pensions In Italy: An alternative approach
Despite shifting and ambiguous regulation, a growing number of pension funds are increasing diversification by making larger allocations to alternative asset classes, writes Silvio Bencini
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Pensions In Italy: Saving the banking system
Italian pension funds are evaluating investment in Fondo Atlante, the banking sector rescue fund. But there are potentially more attractive alternatives, writes Maria Teresa Cometto
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Casse di Previdenza: First pillar left out to dry
The proposed new asset allocation framework for Italy’s first-pillar funds contains several controversial measures
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Pensions In Italy: Regulation - A system in flux
Changing regulation on fiscal and investment matters never ceases to be a challenge for pension funds
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Pensions In Turkey: Diversification lanes open
Amendments to pension market rules are opening opportunities for pension funds to diversify their portfolios through investments in property and foreign equities. Reeta Paakkinen reports
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Sweden: Business as usual?
Rachel Fixsen looks at how the Swedish buffer funds have reacted to the flawed and ultimately shelved attempts to reform and consolidate them
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Regulation: Countdown to auto-enrolment
Turkey is introducing auto-enrolment for private pensions this year, although full details are still to be announced, writes Reeta Paakkinen
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Denmark: Strength in size
Rachel Fixsen looks at the importance of co-operation and collaboration between Danish pension funds as the price of real estate and infrastructure investments continues to grow
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Norway: Accumulation key
Rachel Fixsen discusses the Government Pension Fund Norway with Lars Tronsgaard, deputy chief executive at its asset manager, Folketrygdfondet
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Norway: Seeking illiquidity
Åmund Lunde, chief executive of Olso Pensjonsforsikring, tells Rachel Fixsen how the fund has improved returns through an increased allocation to real estate and infrastructure
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Finland: On cusp of reform
Finland is about to overhaul its pension system including a higher retirement age and the introduction of two new types of pension, writes Reeta Paakkinen
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Finland: Overseas returns
Reeta Paakkinen writes that Finnish pension funds are looking to diversify their real estate portfolios in their quest for worthwhile returns in the current low-interest-rate environment
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Iceland: Slowly but surely
Iceland’s capital controls imposed in the wake of the country’s banking crisis eight years ago are being lifted for pension funds, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Country ReportPensions In Switzerland: Caught in an impasse
Swiss pension funds are still coming to terms with negative bond yields and uncertainty over the strength of the Swiss franc. Daniel Ben-Ami examines the considerable challenges they face
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Pensions In France: Change of tack on pensions
French supplementary pension funds are to be freed from the capital requirements of Solvency II and brought under the IORP regime, writes Susanna Rust
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PERCO brews a success
A new law aims to make collective retirement savings plans more attractive, writes Susanna Rust
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Domestic investment: Returns, but at what cost?
Although Swiss pension funds have a low home bias, local investments still make up a substantial proportion of their portfolios
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Interview: Roger Tischhauser
Roger Tischhauser is responsible for 40% of the assets in the Swiss second pillar and is an agent for reform in the pensions debate
