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Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Suzanne Woolley of Bloomberg reports, You’re About to Get Too Expensive for Your Pension Plan: The federal budget deal could speed the long, lingering death of old-fashioned defined-benefit pension plans, in which employers reward years of … Continue reading Budget Deal May Expedite Demise of Corporate DB Plans

Dutch pension giant PGGM made waves this summer when it gave its external private equity managers an ultimatum: disclose all fees or face divestment. The pension systems still want to invest in private equity – but they want to do it internally. Several Dutch pension systems this week are asking permission to hire private equity … Continue reading Dutch Pensions Look to Beef Up In-House Private Equity Staff

Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Tom DiChristopher of CNBC reports, Millennials face ‘Great Depression’ in retirement: Blackstone COO: Americans in their 20s and 30s are facing a retirement crisis that could plunge them back into the Great Depression, Blackstone President … Continue reading A Solution to America’s Retirement Crisis?

Dutch pension ABP, with an investment portfolio 20 percent larger than CalPERS’, is one of the largest pension funds in the world. The fund announced this week that it is beginning a self-described “ambitious” push to divest from companies that don’t meet a certain “sustainability” criteria. More from Reuters: ABP, one of the world’s largest … Continue reading Dutch Pension To Launch “Ambitious” Sustainable Investing Push

Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Mary Williams Marsh of the New York Times reports, Teamsters’ Pension Fund Warns 400,000 of Cuts: A prominent Teamsters pension fund, one of the largest, has filed for reorganization under a new federal law and … Continue reading Wither Teamsters’ Pension Fund?

Leo Kolivakis is a blogger, trader and independent senior pension and investment analyst. This post was originally published at Pension Pulse. Joseph Cotterill of the Financial Times reports, Ontario Teachers’ eyes London expansion: Ontario Teachers’, the Canadian pension plan that owns the UK’s High Speed One railway and its National Lottery operator, is planning to expand … Continue reading Ontario Teachers’ Eyes London Expansion?

More and more pension fund money is flowing overseas, according to a report released this week by PricewaterhouseCoopers that examines pension funds’ investment trends over the last 8 years. Pension funds around the globe – but particularly in the Asia Pacific – have increased their allocations to international investments, including equities, real estate and foreign … Continue reading Pension Funds Across Globe Increasing International Exposure: Report

The Netherlands’ Central Bank this week told the nation’s distressed pension funds that they have 12 years to rectify their funding situations. Approximately two-thirds of Dutch pension funds are under distress, although the benchmark for “distress” is much higher in the Netherlands than in the U.S. – Dutch pensions are considered distressed when their funding … Continue reading Dutch Central Bank Puts 12-Year Timeline on Funding Targets for Distressed Pensions