All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 26
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NewsForeign equity exposure buoys first-half returns at Swiss schemes
Pension fund association ASIP calculates nearly 5% average return over period
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New industry group predicts 'massive consolidation' in Swiss pensions
Group de Refléxion says more than half of Pensionskassen will disappear over next decade
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NewsAustrian pension funds return nearly 5% over first half of 2014
Pensionskassen membership still increasing slowly, FVPK says
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Swiss asset management costs 'don't paint whole picture', experts warn
Pensionskassen pay 0.42% of managed assets in fees, according to ASIP survey
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NewsGerman institutional interest in SRI continues to grow, survey shows
Investors seeing sustainability as risk management issue rather than ‘marketing tool’
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ASIP criticises Swiss government's 'minor changes' to reform package
Government makes only minor amendments to major Altersvorsorge 2020 plans, ‘risking failure in Parliament’
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NewsCERN's Economou to complement Lombard Odier's risk-based strategy
Approach aims to predict not specific events but rather ‘distribution of events’
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NewsAustrian pensions situation shows 'limits' of IORP Directive – arithmetica
Large parts of pension promises remain unfunded in Austrian listed companies’ books
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NewsNew CEO at Austria's Raiffeisen streamlines company, focuses on SRI
Michael Höllerer, Richard Schnabl succeed Mathias Bauer and Gerhard Aigner at asset manager
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European pensions industry questions purpose, timing of IORP stress tests
European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority confirms stress tests to simulate ‘prolonged low-interest-rate environment’
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NewsECB interest rate decision 'like a tax', says Switzerland's Publica
Rising interest rates ‘would be good’ for Swiss schemes despite short-term accounting loss
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Austrian pension fund VBV laments regulatory bias against derivatives
Head of asset management complains of regulatory bias against hedging instruments in wake of ECB rate cut
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EIOPA committee chairman confirms 2015 'stress tests' for IORPs
Actuarial Association of Europe throws support behind capital requirements for IORPs
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NewsAustrian companies not obliged to offer pension plan choice, experts say
Employer free to offer just one company pension plan despite new law
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ECB interest rate cut tantamount to 'expropriation', says German association
VFPK chairman says move to avoid valuation corrections ‘at all costs’ comes at expense of pension savers
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NewsGerman church pension funds shift towards direct real estate
VKPB, KZVK use asset class as ‘risk buffer’ to help maintain high equity exposure
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NewsSwiss pension funds cut bond exposure to ramp up alternatives
Manor scheme allocates ‘very strongly’ towards infrastructure, hedge funds and convertibles
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Swiss watchdog laments 'rudimentary' data on pension fund risks
Vice-president at Oberaufsichtskommission questions regulator’s ability to assess pension funds’ investment risk
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Schmidt-Narischkin to take on 'holistic' role at Towers Watson Germany
Deutsche Asset Wealth Management head to join consultancy in July
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NewsGerman pension fund laments IORP II Directive's impact on costs
Pensionskasse for construction workers fears higher costs via third pillar of new EU Directive
