Pensions in Netherlands Report – Page 6
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A nationwide debate
Leen Preesman sets the stage for the consultative debate on the pensions system that will take place throughout the Netherlands this autumn
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Risk clarity and better contacts
The new FTK is all about smoothing rough edges. Pension funds will have more time to implement cuts and market fluctuations will play less of a role, write Olaf Boschman and Frank van Alphen
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Top 1000: Netherlands - (Another) new FTK
A revised FTK is set for implementation in 2015, and is the prelude to a wide-reaching reform to the Dutch pension system
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The Netherlands: State-guaranteed securitisation
The Dutch government would like the country’s pension funds to support the housing market by investing in mortgage bonds. But details remain sketchy, as Caroline Saunders reports
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The Netherlands: A psychologist’s view of pensions
Prospect theory and a psychological analysis of the way scheme participants respond to a variety of pension promises may help to design a pension system better suited to member preferences, according to Thomas van Galen and Noortje van der Vorst
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The Netherlands: Real economy investment
Anton van Nunen describes a new initiative to boost lending to the Dutch SME sector
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The Netherlands: ‘Our first duty is pensions’
Peter Borgdorff tells Liam Kennedy about PFZW’s new contract with PGGM and its unstinting focus on costs
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The Netherlands: Can they have their cake and eat it?
In their search for a sustainable pension system, the Dutch are exploring ways to combine DB and DC. Theo Kocken shares his vision with Mariska van der Westen
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The Netherlands: All eyes on the homeland
Pension funds are under pressure to raise their domestic investments from the current level of 14%. Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at how they have dealt with this imperative
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The Netherlands: Absolute confusion
A further delay of the long awaited change in financial rules for pension funds is looming, writes Olaf Boschman
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The Netherlands: Get ready for inflation
With liquidity sloshing around the financial system, inflation may not be a matter of ‘if’, but ‘when’. Miranda Schoutsen asks whether real assets will help protect fragile nominal pensions from the relentless erosion of value
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The Netherlands: Decision time
Cabinet endorsement of the new FTK proposals means Dutch pension funds must soon choose between a nominal or a real pension framework. But some are holding out for a hybrid option, writes Nina Roehrbein
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The Netherlands: A complex improvement
Pension experts think that the new Dutch pension governance legislation is complicated. But on balance they agree that it will significantly improve the representation of all stakeholders, according to Leen Preesman
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Country ReportThe Netherlands: Little difference between the two
While they may seem to offer better inflation-proof pension benefits, careful analysis shows that real contracts offer little more protection than nominal ones, argue Kees Bouwman, Theo Kocken and Bart Oldenkamp
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The Netherlands: Nominal or real? Or best of both?
Michel Iglesias del Sol and Gerard Roelofs assess the wider implications of FTK2
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The Netherlands: Sky-high success
André de Vos spoke with Toine van der Stee of Blue Sky Group, the manager of the KLM pension funds
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The Netherlands: Is this what our system needs?
Dutch pension reforms are constantly shortsighted. To be sustainable the system needs vision and decisiveness, argues Corine Hoekstra
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The Netherlands: Mixed views on risk factors
Allocation based on risk factors rather than traditional asset categories is gaining traction, says Miranda Schoutsen, but some investors are wondering whether the old ways are not better
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Country ReportThe Netherlands: It’s not easy to get right
Cees Harm van den Berg and Gerard Roelofs find that the UFR has led to heightened awareness of interest rate risk and many funds have changed their hedging policy.
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The Netherlands: Regime change
Uncertainty is unsettling the Dutch pension fund industry as a new pension framework takes shape, finds Nina Röhrbein
