All Country Reports articles – Page 10
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Country ReportPensions in Nordic Region: Iceland - Opportunities abound
Icelandic funds are looking to step up their foreign exposure now that exchange controls are being lifted. But they are in no rush
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Sweden: AP7 could double after reforms
Sweden’s Premium Pensions Committee wants new pension savers’ contributions to go straight to AP7’s Såfa balanced default option as part of reform proposals, writes Rachel Fixsen
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Country ReportPensions In Switzerland: Parliamentary ping pong
A political stalemate is holding up Switzerland’s Altersvorsorge 2020 pensions reform package. And now time is running out, as Barbara Ottawa finds
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Interview: Jacqueline Oh, Swiss Association for Responsible Investments
Jacqueline Oh, managing director of SVVK/ASIR, believes Swiss pension funds are lagging behind some of their European peers when it comes to sustainable investments. But they are catching up
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Financial Sustainability: Are there enough assets?
Lukas Riesen and Stephan Skaanes ask whether Swiss pension funds can financially afford their promises
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Swiss market liquidity: Anything left to drink?
Robert Cranston assesses liquidity trends in Swiss markets
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Asset Allocation: Curves, currency and costs
More than anywhere else, the low and negative interest rate environment is shaping Swiss portfolios. But investment challenges are quite particular, finds Barbara Ottawa
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Sector slams government proposals for regulation on Switzerland's 1e plans
An initial government proposal for a regulation on self-guided top-up pension plans for high earners has been slammed
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Country ReportSpain: Focus on safety first
Pension funds are reducing their risk levels in response to uncertainties generated by Spain’s failure to form a government, Brexit and Italy’s banking crisis
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Portugal: An eye on European clouds
Against a backdrop of a steadily recovering domestic economy, private pension funds in Portugal have maintained stable asset allocations over the past year
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Country ReportPensions Caixa 30: Risk-reduction exercise
Gail Moss finds out what Spain’s biggest corporate pension scheme has been doing to reduce risk in its investment portfolio
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Longevity in the spotlight
Scheme-specific adjustments to standard industry tables can help smaller pension funds take into account the effect of longevity, according to Michael Kelly and Glyn Bradley
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Liquidity warnings
Regulation is constraining pension funds’ ability to manage risk and they should prepare for future illiquidity
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Country ReportPensions In The Netherlands: The end of the road
The sector has run out of options to avoid looming rights cuts, says Leen Preesman
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A Dutch view on IORP II
IORP II sometimes fails to reflect European case law, according to Hans Van Meerten
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Diversified Growth Funds: Diffusing the risk
Katherine Lynas and Adam Gillespie point out that strong diversified growth funds distinguish themselves in performance terms at times of heightened market stress
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LGPS: Straight in at the deep end
Gail Moss assesses progress so far as the eight local government asset pools of England and Wales test the water
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Master Trusts: A DC default for the future
Pádraig Floyd assesses how master trust providers are shaping the design of defined contribution default funds
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DB Sponsor Covenants: Underlying weaknesses
The British Steel and BHS cases have drawn attention to structural flaws in the UK’s defined benefit system when it comes to the sponsor covenant, writes Gill Wadsworth
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Cabinet steadies reforms
Leen Preesman looks at the measures the government is taking to stabilise the pension system
