Pension System – Page 24
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NewsSweden’s newly-expanded pensions group agrees to pension pauses
Eight-party policy setting panel also agrees to carry out a review with the goal of a more flexible withdrawal of the occupational pension
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NewsThe Pensions Regulator will not mandate schemes on how to invest
Instead, TPR will be challenging decision-making to ‘make sure trustees are always acting in members’ interests’, says Nausicaa Delfas
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NewsInflation hits occupational pensions in Germany, says Deloitte
Inflation is having a bigger impact on employees than the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine
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NewsSweden launches new AP fund review, weighs merging AP6 and AP2
Government queries expense of running so many funds; AP7 included in the review, despite not being a buffer fund
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NewsSwedes see refund from dropped Russian, East European premium pension funds
Pensions agency announces further SEK247m refund from Barings, East Capital and Nordea funds – deregistered after Ukraine invasion – to first-pillar pension savers
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NewsDWP embraces PPF as potential public pensions consolidator candidate
‘From a variety of perspectives there’s clearly an investment model that we already have, expertise and infrastructure,’ says the PPF
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NewsDB pension funds ‘working against’ government’s productive finance agenda
Defined benefit schemes have now stopped and some even reduced their allocation to illiquid assets, says WTW
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NewsSolution to small pots proliferation is to use pension dashboard infrastructure
A solution to small pots proliferation will require ‘a new piece of data infrastructure’, DWP said
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NewsAP3, AP4 eye faster investment decisions after joint IT procurement
Swedish buffer fund duo link up to replace current patchwork of systems with SimCorp’s comprehensive Dimension system, citing many advantages
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NewsUK pensions industry told to prepare for consolidation
Industry experts expect to see a significant amount of consolidation in the market by 2035
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NewsATP rejects argument that Danish pension saving is excessive
Statutory pensions giant says its analysis shows Ramlau-Hansen’s assumption of increasing coverage slightly overblown
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NewsSwiss pension funds suffer returns setback in Q3
Infrastructure investments worst performing asset class so far this year at -5.8%
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NewsDanish FSA laments lack of inflation linkage in pension payments
Finanstilsynet also worried pension providers failing to acknowledge conflicts of interest within operations
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NewsSkandia CEO lashes out at Swedish system that allows Alecta’s dominance
Frans Lindelöw says too much pension capital is concentrated in troubled pensions giant, creating ‘a vulnerability and a social risk’
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NewsThe Netherlands returns to top spot in Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index
The index report also examined the potential of artificial intelligence to improve pension and social security systems
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NewsDutch pension experts identify important pitfalls for pension fund trustees
Dutch pension trustee Alfred Slager and consultant Martijn Vos reveal them in their new book ‘Decision making for pension fund boards’
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NewsInstitutional investors shift to bonds, change stance on alternatives
Germany’s first pillar pension reform will affect the fund industry, says Universal Investment’s chief customer officer Katja Müller
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NewsUK sees record £21.2bn transferred to insurers in first half of 2023
LCP research shows number of UK private sector DB schemes fully-funded on buyout has increased to 20%
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NewsIrish Pensions Authority publishes own-risk assessment guidance
Trustees are required to complete a full own-risk assessment every three years.
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NewsPension schemes encouraged to run on to avoid potential value loss
Van Lanschot Kempen launched a solution for schemes approaching their endgame to encourage longer term thinking for the benefit of members, trustees and sponsors
