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In a letter to Parliament late 2016, the State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment set out the government's conditions for allowing mergers between mandatory industry-wide pension funds...
In a letter to Parliament late 2016, the State Secretary for
Social Affairs and Employment set out the government's
conditions for allowing mergers between mandatory industry-wide
pension funds with temporarily ring-fenced funds. We have
identified a number of areas that could be problematic. These
include that the proposed ring-fencing ban is not essential, that
the proposal does not anticipate the introduction of a new pension
contract, and that there is no provision for the governance of
merged pension funds.
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