All Country Reports articles – Page 7
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Covenants: Inadequacies in the covenant assessment process
How should UK pension fund trustees evaluate the credit risk they are exposed to in their main employer sponsor?
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Asset Allocation: In the mix
Asset allocation review for the largest Dutch pension funds
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Country ReportDutch pensions: Aiming for full transparency on costs
Dutch funds are now required to provide deeper insight into their expenses in their annual reports
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Transfer values: Advice, please
Cash equivalent pension transfers offer members flexibility and lower the funding burden for employers. What’s not to like?
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Country ReportAuto-enrolment: Auto-enrolment still faces acid test
Millions of workers have joined workplace pension schemes under auto-enrolment but there is still some way to go before full adoption
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Outsourcing: Funds over Achmea debacle
Industry-wide pension schemes have worked quickly to find new administrators to replace Syntrus Achmea
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Country ReportItaly: Offering an alternative
Italian pension fund portfolios tend to be less diversified and domestically focused than other European institutional investors. This looks set to change with a turn towards alternatives
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Finland regulation: Seeking pension diversity
Finland is making it easier to set up a pension fund, with the aim of increasing competition
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Denmark: Pension risk faces scrutiny
Assessing responses to the Danish FSA’s recent discussion paper on pensions risk
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Asset strategy: Threat or opportunity?
Outlining the dynamics of the Nordic institutional investment market
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Sweden: AP funds power on
Buffer funds seek greater flexibility to invest in alternatives
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Asset allocation roundup: Busy in alternatives
Recent investment activity of large Nordic institutional investors
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Finland asset allocation: Views from Helsinki
Three major Finnish pension investors in focus
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Country ReportNorway: Ahead of its time
Norway’s local government fund makes extensive use of ESG strategies
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Ircantec raises risk profile
Appointing an overlay manager is the corollary of a new strategic asset allocation at the €9.8bn French public sector scheme. Susanna Rust reports
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Country ReportPensions In France: Why make it simple?
French pension schemes are up in arms over plans for a decree they say imposes harmful constraints on how they manage their assets. Susanna Rust reports
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Fees: Clear on management costs
Ueli Mettler and Benita von Lindeiner examine the difficult question of costs in Switzerland’s second-pillar pension system
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Country ReportPensions In Switzerland: Make or break
The referendum in September will decide the fate of the Swiss pension reform package. Barbara Ottawa analyses the first stages of the political campaigns leading up to the vote
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Good governance boosts returns
Best practice in governance has been shown to produce above-average investment returns, say Manuel Ammann and Christian Ehmann
