{"id":669234,"date":"2026-01-02T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/669234\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:33:10","slug":"what-dutch-pension-reforms-mean-for-swap-bond-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/669234\/","title":{"rendered":"What Dutch Pension Reforms Mean for Swap, Bond Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Netherlands is overhauling its pensions to adapt to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs.nl\/en-gb\/visualisations\/dashboard-population\/age\/elderly-people\" title=\"Statistics Netherlands: Age distribution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">aging population<\/a> and a labor market where people no longer remain with the same employer for their entire working lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A complex transition from so-called defined-benefit pensions to a new system involving defined contributions is due to be completed by the start of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rijksoverheid.nl\/actueel\/nieuws\/2025\/12\/02\/voldoende-tijd-voor-overgang-naar-nieuw-pensioenstelsel\" title=\"Government statement on transition to new pension system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">2028<\/a>. Some major pension funds made the move at the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Netherlands is overhauling its pensions to adapt to an aging population and a labor market where people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[118689,3420,51,73822,14441,13641,474,478,6615,8175,2441,1477,203880,2499,17392,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-669234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-asset-allocation","9":"tag-bonds","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-euro-spot","12":"tag-european-central-bank","13":"tag-explainer","14":"tag-finance","15":"tag-interest-rates","16":"tag-investing","17":"tag-labor","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-netherlands","20":"tag-pension-plan","21":"tag-personal-finance","22":"tag-retirement-age","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115826235952757760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}