All Country Reports articles – Page 16
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Sweden: AP7 triumphs
CIO Richard Gröttheim downplays his fund’s recent stellar performance, explaining that conviction in strategy should always trump short-term gain
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Amundi & EDF: Adopting a dual approach
Amundi and EDF have combined forces with the announcement of a new asset management company
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Country ReportFrance's Agirc-Arrco: Reform of last resort
French public finance magistrates have stressed the urgency of reforms to France’s main private sector supplementary regime, Agirc-Arrco
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Agirc-Arrco: Opening closed shops
Restructuring France’s supplementary pension schemes will see greater centralised management and the increased use of passive strategies
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Denmark: Ahead of the rest
Rachel Fixsen speaks with one of the leaders of a new research centre that aims to keep Denmark as the leading pension provider
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Asset Allocation: A growth story revisited
Richard Bruyère presents the results of Indefi’s fourteenth annual research report analysing institutional investment trends in France
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Asset Allocation: Autres temps, autres mœurs
France’s institutional investors, like most across Europe, are struggling to adapt to the low-interest environment
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Sweden's Pensions Working Group unlikely to reach conclusions any time soon
Pirkko Juntunen asks when the Pensions Working Group will finally come to any conclusions. The answer seems to be ‘nobody knows, but not any time soon’
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Sweden's buffer funds: Healthy despite uncertainty
Sweden’s national buffer funds, despite their uncertain future, are faring quite well
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Denmark: Weathering the storm
Despite the blustery short-term economic environment, Danish pension funds have set their sights firmly on the horizon
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Finland's pension mutuals: New governance rules
The recent scandal at Keva ushered in new governance rules for Finnish pensions mutuals, but many funds are already one step ahead of the game
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Finnish funds take international outlook
Finnish pension funds are internationalising their portfolios in an effort to help offset domestic woes
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France's Novi fund targets liquidity
Gilles Pouzin outlines the concept behind the Novi fund, the latest institutional investment vehicle offering equity and loans to smaller French enterprises
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Sweden: Rolling with the punches
Earlier this year, the Swedish central bank decided to push repo rates into negative territory. We look at how the country’s pension funds have adapted their portfolios
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Country ReportDutch state secretary outlines plans for pensions communication Bill
Pensioners to get access to Pensions Register from 2017, Jetta Klijnsma says
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German funds under pressure to review asset allocation
German pension funds must review their strategic asset allocation to avoid headwinds in the fixed-income market
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Opinion Pieces
Viewpoint: Heribert Karch - German occupational pensions association
Heribert Karch addresses whether the German goverment will be able to introduce the pure defined contribution schemes outlined in its recent pension reform proposals
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Country ReportAustrian Provident Funds: The pensions challenger
Mandatory contributions mean Austrian provident funds are catching up with Pensionskassen both as institutional investors and in terms of business strategy
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Occupational Pensions: Austria's unloved funds
Despite good long-term performance, few companies are making use of a multi-employer pension fund or indeed any form of occupational pension
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Interview: Prof Bert Rürup - A critical view on policy
Barbara Ottawa asked pension figurehead Prof Bert Rürup about pension reforms past and future
