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Article: Asset Allocation: Dutch Pension Schemes - Dutch legislation shake-up.(financieel toetsingskader)
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- Financial Times Mandate
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- July 1, 2005
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Financieel Toetsingskader (FTK), the legislation due to come into force at the start of next year, will force Dutch pension funds to focus on their liabilities, with inevitable consequences for asset allocation.
Under the new rules, funds calculating the reserves needed to meet pension obligations will have to use the effective interest rate given by the swap curve (0.05 per cent above the government bond rate) as the discount factor, rather than a fixed actuarial interest rate of 4 per cent.
This has dramatic implications. For example, PME, the E16.2bn giant fund for mechanical and electrical engineers, saw its funding ratio rise 7 per cent to 116 per ...