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NewsUnion spin on pension reform ignores big picture
Public sector pension reform is about the next generation, not about class, says David Davison.
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NewsMartin Steward: Why can't Germany sell its bonds?
In its worst auction of the euro era, Germany tries and fails to sell €6bn worth of Bunds.
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NewsSolvency II: Bernardino fights his corner
Pensions luminaries give new EIOPA chairman a less-than-warm welcome in Frankurt.
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NewsRemuneration is not just a number
Sarah Dudney offers remuneration committees some words of advice for Bonus Decision Time.
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NewsIndices and benchmarks: Clarifying the difference
EDHEC's Noël Amenc clears up the differences between reference indices and custom benchmarks.
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NewsBenjie Fraser on the challenge of aligning of sponsors, trustees
Getting multinationals and local pensions trustees to see eye to eye can be tricky.
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NewsPensions accounting: Tactics before strategy?
Stephen Bouvier laments the fuzziness of the IASB's consultation on its agenda.
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NewsLong-term Matters: Musical chairs
ESG teams would do well to move away from active managers and sit beside the risk team.
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NewsThe ethical oligarchs
Jim Robinson takes issue with the 'undemocratic' nature of pension funds' involvement in SRI.
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NewsIn praise of long-termism
Liam Kennedy encourages the newly launched 300 Club to champion the long-term view.
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Opinion Pieces
Building sector pensions
The European Association of Paritarian Institution’s (AEIP) is working on a continent and sector-wide pension system for the building industry. Francesco Briganti, director of AEIP’s Brussels office, says it aims to create a sector-wide social scheme that could eventually pool pension contributions. Overall benefits would be the spread of best practice in this vast industrial sector.
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Opinion Pieces
Saving, the Texas way
Galveston County, Texas, is no longer famous solely for the hurricane that devastated the area killing an estimated 8,000 people in September 1908, the deadliest natural disaster ever to strike the US. Now the county is cited as an alternative ‘Texas’ model for fixing Social Security.
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Opinion Pieces
Lans Bovenberg & Casper van Ewijk
The EU debt crisis is making further private funding of pensions more desirable. More private retirement saving is necessary to maintain income in old age when public pensions are being cut due to the crisis. Indeed, the implicit debt in the extensive pay-as-you-go (PAYG) arrangements are an important reason behind the European debt crisis. The best way to address the crisis is to cut entitlement programmes in the medium to long term, while leaving more fiscal room to cushion the economy today.
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NewsThe 'Occupy' protests: We are the 99% – but also the 10%
Martin Steward explores some of the movement's contradictions and ironies.
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NewsJeremy Woolfe on the Belgian pensions system
There are many ways to skin the pensions cat – Belgium may have discovered the best one.
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NewsBlue Sky's Van der Stee: Cut those benefits, already!
Dutch trustees must 'take responsibility' and cuts benefits if their schemes are under water.
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NewsFull-time risk managers: Back to the future?
DB pension funds are becoming full-time risk managers. Benjie Fraser wonders what that will look like.
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Will the 'new balanced' be the new bland?
Balanced multi-asset is back. Stephen Oxley hopes the old mediocrity doesn’t come with it.
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NewsThe UK's QE2: Good for the economy, bad for pensions?
QE2 may be good for companies, but it will be a blow for long-suffering pension funds.
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NewsAgeing populations and their effect on asset prices
The idea asset prices will plummet as baby boomers retire is misplaced, argues Mirko Cardinale.
