All Editorial articles – Page 3
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News
IPE Conference: Lower pension payouts in German-speaking Europe
Germany, Austria and Switzerland with system debates – but rather different ones
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Swiss pension associations, businesses seek compromise on AV2020
Reactions to most recent draft of Altersvorsorge 2020 package try to settle differences
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NewsBosch sees 'remarkable' potential in German pension-reform proposal
Company already introduced no-guarantee pension last year
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New Estonian pension provider crowdfunding start-up capital
Tuleva aims to offer lower management fees based on purely passive investment options
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Austrian pension association proposes new long-term savings vehicle
Head of pension fund association also attacks ECB interest rates as ’borderline irresponsible’, expresses hope of greater ’pension coverage
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'Best times' over for alternatives, warns chair of Nokia-Siemens fund
Industry must anticipate lower returns from alternatives, but should still consider allocations, says Thomas Friese
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Opinion Pieces
Long-Term Matters: Absolutely no excuses
The big US proxy fights – at Chevron, Exxon and Southern Company – over resolutions to publish 2°C climate change stress tests happened in May. Did common sense prevail?
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News
German, Austrian regulators OK cross-border pension plan
Nestlé Austria to transfer active members to German Pensionsfonds
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Country Report
Sweden: Calm before the storm
From action on climate change to property, Sweden’s AP funds are not sitting still, even if the precise details of a planned overhaul are unknown. Reeta Paakkinen reports
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Features
Smart questions
There are plenty of interesting questions surrounding smart beta investment in an institutional context. First, does it work? Apparently it does, as academics find more and more evidence that it pays to have passive exposure to factors such as value, low volatility and small-caps.
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Features
Prudence penalty
As we mark seven years since the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers this month, the blunt instrument of regulation still hangs over pension funds with respect to European derivatives trading
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Features
From Our Perspective: Who’s watching the watchers?
In some countries they are accused of heavy-handedness; in others they seem content to play a light-touch role. Either way, European pension regulation remains as diverse as the continent’s pension systems. The IORP II Directive, like its 2004 counterpart will be interpreted and implemented differently across the EU member states; harmonisation of regulation has not led to a harmonisation of regulators.
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Features
China’s importance still underplayed
The turmoil in China is both less serious and more serious than generally assumed.
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NewsAustrian pension commission to launch multi-pillar reform talks in autumn
Pension fund association FVPK calls for tax exemptions, measures to boost coverage of second pillar
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German government mulls greater flexibilities for Pensionsfonds
New proposal would limit pension promises to a minimum, increasing volatility of payouts
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Asset Class ReportsEuropean market volatility to continue for weeks – Blue Sky [updated]
Greek repayment of European Central Bank loan on 20 July ‘crucial’, CIO says
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Under-regulated pension funds could 'distort' lending market, minister warns
Economist thinks over-regulation ‘just a phase’
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News
Definition change leads to surge in Swiss schemes' alternatives allocations
New regulation almost triples allocation to asset class at MPK
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NewsSwiss pension plans see liabilities rise by 4% in 2015
Swiss interest rates dropped by further 25 basis points in first quarter according to Towers Watson study
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Special Report
What is risk parity?
All theory is grey, dear friend /And green the golden tree of life. The words of Mephistopheles in the first volume of Goethe’s Faust distinguish academia from the attractions and contradictions of the real world
