A lack of European integration is keeping the markets closed off and, as a result, opportunities for growth and improvement in the Dutch and European pension and labour markets are not being sufficiently harnessed. We see developments that are laying the foundations for what we would like to...

In this article we will discuss what the work of the EC and EIOPA means and how we should move towards a more objective valuation of pension liabilities in the EU. There are many different kinds of pension liabilities in the European Member States, and there are at least just as many different...

The UK and the Netherlands have different legal and regulatory regimes for defined benefit pension schemes. This paper compares and contrasts the key features of those regimes. The UK allocates all of the underfunding risk in a UK defined benefit pension scheme to the employer, backed up by the...

This report focuses on the voluntary and complementary pension Fund (hereafter: the Fund) for Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and specifically whether the guarantee that was given by the EuropeanParliament (EP) to uphold all rights of members of the Fund (theguarantee) can be legally...

As a result of the pension reform, 2,000 billion euros of assets must be 'converted' into the new system. According to professor of European pension law and lawyer Hans van Meerten, this leads to insurmountable legal problems and the responsible Minister of Social Affairs must look for alternatives