IPE's Austria Coverage – Page 11
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Special Report
Special Report, Fees & Costs: Winds of change
Brendan Maton reports on the anxious vigilance around costs in pension fund management, but finds progress to be frustrated and incomplete.
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Features
Global rating of pension systems, interview with David Knox, Melbourne Mercer Global Pensions index
Now in its sixth year, the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension index has become a yardstick for the world’s industry to assess the successes and failures of pensions policy.
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News
IPE Awards: Asset allocation key when making 'in-house' decision
Pension fund managers debate reasoning for utilising in-house investment expertise
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News
IPE Awards: Asset managers should look at wider investment horizon (video)
Christian Böhm, chief executive at APK, speaks at the IPE Conference & Awards 2014 on pension fund, asset manager relationships
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News
Pension funds split over meaning, duration of long-termism
IPE survey reveals diverging views on definition of ‘long term’, with some citing 25 years and others just five
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NewsAsset management roundup: Swisscanto, ZKB, Amundi, Bawag PSK
Swiss cantonal bank ZKB in talks with Swisscanto over possible takeover
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News
Melbourne Mercer deems Danish pension system best in world
Latest Melbourne Mercer report sees addition of four new European countries, with Finland seeing highest-ever score for pension integrity
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News
Austria's Valida appoints board members to tackle admin clean-up
Stefan Eberhartinger, Albert Gaubitzer hired to increase efficiency
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NewsAustrian pension system has diversification problem, expert says
Net replacement rate set to sink to 60% as complexity in second pillar prevents broader appeal
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Special Report
Top 1000: Austria - The fight against inertia
Every Austrian born after 1955 who has accrued pension benefits in the state pension system now has a new account, the Pensionskonto. And for the first time, each citizen has also received a letter in which they are informed about their pension benefits from the first pillar pay-as-you-go scheme.
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Special Report
Top 1000: Finland - A focus on solvency and governance
Implementation of Solvency II continues apace. Wide-ranging reforms will raise the retirement age and there has been a focus on transparency following a governance scandal.
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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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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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News
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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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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News
Austria's derivatives cap hindering would-be SRI investors, VBV warns
Severance pay funds call for more flexibility on hedging instruments, real estate investments
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NewsThree largest Austrian Pensionskassen increase hold on market
Austrian supervisor FMA presents figures on retirement sector showing largest funds account for three-quarters of assets
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Country Report
Austria: Keeping it complicated
Austrian Pensionskassen portfolios are highly diverse, which not only makes it difficult to speak of ‘average performance’, but also complicates administration and liability management, writes Barbara Ottawa
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News
Raiffeisen to pull out of Czech pensions market after changes
Austrian bank blames new government’s plan to abolish second pillar
