The Dutch pension agreement of 2011 has been the cause of heated – and ongoing – debates. The agreement will lead to a major transition from today’s ‘harder’ pension rights towards conditional or ‘soft’ pension rights. The agreement of 2011 will be specified in detail in 2012 in a new regulatory framework, commonly [...]
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The white paper ‘Pensions in Europe’ looks at what multinational companies see as the major issues facing them today with their pensions in Europe, examines what the companies are doing now and what they intend to do in the future. Pensions in Europe confirms three dominant trends in how multinational companies are [...] Posted on September 18th, 2011
Since the introduction of the International Accounting Standards for employee benefits (IAS 19) in 1980, they have influenced the way corporate sponsors manage their pension funds. With every new revision of the standard since, the short-term financial impact of Defined Benefit (DB) pension funds on their sponsors has increased. As a result, DB [...] Posted on September 15th, 2011
The present debt crisis in Europe requires not only actions by individual states but also a sustainable long-term European solution. One-off national and multinational solutions need to be embedded in a more transparent and disciplined approach to national debt in Europe; one that better takes into account the costs of ageing and the [...] Posted on June 5th, 2011
In order to meet new accounting requirements and to protect themselves against future volatility, financial institutions in many European countries have now adopted liability-driven investing (LDI) solutions. Put simply, LDI solutions attempt to reduce balance sheet risk and thus the required solvency capital by matching liabilities with appropriate assets. Although the [...] 2 pages
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