IPE's Austria Coverage – Page 14
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Country Report
Austria: Domestic headwinds buffet Pensionskassen
Second pillar pension losses during the financial crisis have strengthened the arguments of critics of Austria’s funded pension system. Barbara Ottawa reports
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Country Report
Austria’s equity puzzle
Barbara Ottawa finds Austrian pension funds focused on the here-and-now, especially when it comes to risk management. The equity returns of 2009 are no future panacea
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News
Austrian pension funds return 9%
[15:30 CET 15-01] AUSTRIA – The average return of Austria's 17 Pensionskassen was 9% in 2009, the pension fund association FVPK has revealed.
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News
Austrian study blames pension funds for the financial crisis
[16:15 CEST 20-10] AUSTRIA/GLOBAL – The growth of funded pension systems over the last decades has helped destabilise the equity markets, a new study commissioned by the Viennese Labour Chamber (AK Wien) concludes.
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NewsAustrian pension funds report 7% return
[17:10 CEST 06-10] AUSTRIA – In the first nine months of this year the 19 Austrian pensionskassen returned 7.35%, according to the pension fund association FVPK.
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News
Pensionskassen are 'confident' about Austrian court action
[15:45 CEST 25-09] AUSTRIA – Austrian opposition parties have called on the constitutional court to look into the law on pension funds following last year’s investment losses, but the pension fund association is confident the action will be dismissed.
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FeaturesAustria: Pensionskassen under construction
Austria’s coalition partners will outline a reform to the Pensionskassen system this autumn, finds Barbara Ottawa
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News
Third pillar growth unbroken by crisis
[16:15 CEST 31-07] GERMANY/AUSTRIA – Interest in third pillar savings funds has remained high even through the financial crisis, according to both the German investment association BVI and the Austrian regulator FMA.
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Country Report
A review of performance
Austria’s government has responded to the poor 2008 performance of pension funds by establishing a pension reform commission to discuss possible changes to the system. George Coats makes an assessment
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News
Aegon’s cross-border arm to cooperate with €2.4bn APK
[17:00 CEST 02-09] NETHERLANDS/AUSTRIA – The €2.5bn Austrian pension fund APK-Pensionskasse and Dutch insurer Aegon have signed a letter of intent that will allow both organisations to further expand internationally.
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Features
Austrian Spezialfonds face new challenges
Institutional investors in Austria have been enjoying the benefits of outsourcing asset management services for a number of years. The key instrument to implement a sound outsourcing strategy is the Spezialfonds (see box). Spezialfonds are launched by management companies KAGs according to the client-specific needs of a single institutional investor ...
