All articles by Barbara Ottawa
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Special Report
Austria: Waiting for politics to get serious about pensions
With elections looming, Austrian politicians are not making pensions a priority
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News
Austrian pension funds see AUM soar by 3.03%
FMA’s latest quarterly report shows that Pensionskassen AUM for Q1 2024 stood at €27.18bn, having increased by €800m
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News
Swiss supervisor calls for more tailored regulation for collective schemes
The possibility for conflicts of interest is higher and they need more governance, says OAK BV president
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News
New head for Austria’s pension advisory board after three-year vacancy
Christine Mayrhuber took over the position this month from its former head Walter Pöltner
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News
Austrian hotels partner with VBV to offer occupational pensions to workers
Association is convinced that occupational pension offers – which are still rare in Austria in general and in the tourism industry in particular – will help attract more staff
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News
Austria sees slow closure of first pillar gender pension gap
Self-employed women in Austria are worse-off when retiring than employed women
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News
€10bn Swiss pension fund seeks new head
LUPK posted returns of 5.1% in 2023, beating its internal benchmark
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News
Sustainability is becoming more expensive, say Austrian pension funds
‘We have been ‘living’ sustainability for a while now but it is costing more and more money,’ says Bundespensionskasse board member
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News
Baltic institutions suffer minor hiccup with BaltCap infrastructure investment
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has now become involved in a possible case of embezzlement at BaltCap
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News
Austria’s largest pension fund reports performance range of 5% to 7.5%
‘We want to break with the tradition of boiling all our different strategies and risk models down to one figure,’ says Günther Schiendl
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News
Austrian pensions veteran calls on industry to support PensionsEurope
Johannes Ziegelbecker said SFDR, DORA and FIDA were ‘horizontal legislations’
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News
IPE Conference: Asset managers urged to implement diversity policies
More diversity on decision-making panels leads to better investment decision and even outperformance of peers
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News
Advice on IORP II revisions won’t help increase cross-border pensions, associations say
EIOPA’s latest report confirms lack of cross-border activity in Europe
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Country Report
Asset allocation for Swiss pension funds: end to the drift away from bonds?
Markets and a growing familiarity with alternative assets have seen portfolio structures move slightly last year but despite the rise in interest no sudden movements are expected
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Special Report
Austria: Pension industry faces an indifferent government
Reforms look likely to be on hold until after federal elections in 2024
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Features
Austria’s politicians are too timid to make decisions, says VBV’s Schiendl
Austrian institutional investors believe that both national and European Union politics are impeding the evolution of the occupational pensions market.
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News
Resaver Pension Fund to be reorganised for growth
‘Several more countries’ are set to introduce the IORP to their national pension framework
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Features
Switzerland: Online lending
The popularity of crowdlending is rising, but will it challenge the mainstream?
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Analysis
Analysis: Austrian election brings hope for pension reform
Consultant calls on Austria’s new government to talk about pensions “without ideology” as election looms on 29 September
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Special Report
Germany: Tinkering at the edges
As yet no social partners have adopted the latest pension model in an already highly complex system