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16 October 2012

IORP(職域年金)指令の見直しで、EIOPA(欧州保険年金機構)が包括的バランスシート導入の第1次定量的影響度調査を開始


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The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has launched the first quantitative impact study (QIS) for the implementation of a holistic balance sheet (HBS) within the revised directive for occupational pensions.


The QIS will assess the financial impact of different sets of options for the valuation of the holistic balance sheet and the calculation of capital requirements. It will also deal with the quantification of the security and benefit adjustment mechanisms existing in different countries.

The exercise is targeted at IORPs that run defined benefit pension plans. IORPs that only provide pure defined contribution schemes are excluded from the scope. In order to facilitate the participation in the QIS of smaller IORPs, EIOPA developed so-called ’helper tabs’ – spreadsheets that will assist IORPs in valuing sponsor support and pension protection schemes by using simplifications.

Nine European countries, in which defined benefit pension plans are most prevalent, have volunteered to participate in the study: Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The national supervisory authorities (NSAs) are responsible for conducting the QIS in their country. The exercise will be performed by either selected IORPs or by the NSAs themselves using real or aggregate data; or by actuarial firms acting on behalf of NSAs; or a combination.

EIOPA will coordinate the QIS at the European level, will be in charge of a question & answer procedure, and will analyse the individual data in order to ensure consistency of the results.

The exercise runs until 17 December 2012 and the report on the QIS outcome is expected to be released in spring 2013.

Gabriel Bernardino, Chairman of EIOPA, said: “I am pleased that we have been able to take this important step in the development of a new European framework for occupational pension funds. In our advice to the European Commission we proposed the holistic balance sheet (HBS) concept as a means to capture the wide diversity of retirement systems in a single prudential regime. This QIS will allow us to investigate  the feasibility of implementing the HBS in practice.”

QIS study

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