All Country Reports – Page 59
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Country ReportFrance: Reforms on the starting line
Reform to the French social system is less politically unacceptable than it was a few years ago, writes Alain Lemoine
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Country ReportGermany: Risiko!
Many German institutions already use their tight risk budgets to finance minimum returns. Now, with inflation on the horizon, the task is to allocate risk effectively, writes Nina Röhrbein
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Germany: Local and global
Nina Röhrbein assesses the state of play in the German asset consulting marketplace following the merger of Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt
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Germany: A pan-German conundrum
Greater subsidiarity for the 16 German provinces could lead to a multitude of pensionprovision regulations for civil servants and significant mobility problems, finds Barbara Ottawa
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Germany: Pensions at a time of rising PSV contribution rates
Nikolaus Schmidt-Narischkin assesses the problems arising from increasing corporatecontributions to Germany’s PSV pension guarantee system
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Germany: Risk and occupational pensions
Nigel Cresswell, Wolfram Horneff and Stephan Wildner assess risk management techniques
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Germany: BilMoG reforms ring the changes
Günter Hainz and Georg Thurnes assess the implications of the new BilMoG accounting rules for pension liabilities
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Country ReportGermany: Focus on security
Frank Schnattinger outlines the results of the latest IPE-Institutional Investment survey of German institutional investors
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Austria: Domestic headwinds buffet Pensionskassen
Second pillar pension losses during the financial crisis have strengthened the arguments of critics of Austria’s funded pension system. Barbara Ottawa reports
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Austria’s equity puzzle
Barbara Ottawa finds Austrian pension funds focused on the here-and-now, especially when it comes to risk management. The equity returns of 2009 are no future panacea
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Netherlands: Save our system
The Dutch pension system is decaying due to legislation, accounting practices and the economic climate, writes Anton van Nunen
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Netherlands: In practice
Both the Frijns Committee and the DNB, the Dutch supervisor, have been clear in their assessments: pension funds need to bolster their governance in order to bring asset management and risk management more under control. Mariksa van der Westen and Miranda Schoutsen ask what pension funds are doing to meet ...
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Country ReportNetherlands: Facing tomorrow’s risks today
Change is not an extravagant luxury, Piet Hein Donner, the Netherlands’ minister for social affairs and labour, told Mariska van der Westen
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Netherlands: Pensions should be a 'good deal'
Miranda Schoutsen spoke to Kees Goudswaard, the author of the report ‘A Strong Second Pillar’
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Country ReportNetherlands: Old giants on slippery ice
Pension funds are like vulnerable old giants reaching with stiff fingers to fasten their skates before launching themselves onto the slippery ice of the future. Jean Frijns, chairman of the Frijns Committee, told us how he thinks these giants can be made fit for the future, Jean Frijns
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Country ReportNetherlands: Change on the horizon
It has been the poster boy of the international pensions world, but the Netherlands is now reflecting on recent failings following the publication of the Frijns and Goudswaard reports, writes Liam Kennedy, as the prospect of a real cover ratio looms on the horizon
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Country ReportBelgium: A time for courage and action
Karel Stroobants argues that doing nothing about the Belgian pension system is not an option if the country is to avoid collective impoverishment and generational conflict
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Belgium: Prime location status proves an elusive goal
Astrid Pieron argues that a combination of strong competition and tax and legal discrimination is hampering Belgium as a destination for cross-border pension funds
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Belgium: Keeping it safe and simple
Belgium’s pension funds are erring on the side of caution as they begin the process of re-examining their asset allocation strategies following the downturn. Nina Roehrbein reports
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Country ReportIreland: A long game in pensions
Christine Senior assesses the roller-coaster of Irish pensions legislation and regulation
