Glossary entry

Danish term or phrase:

Pensionskasser

English translation:

Pension funds or societies

Added to glossary by Christine Andersen
Oct 11, 2010 16:50
13 yrs ago
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Danish term

Pensionskasser

Danish to English Law/Patents Insurance
In a document on taxation of life assurance companies etc.
there is a phrase : "livsforsikringsselskaber, pensionskasser og pensionsfonde" .

What is the distinction between "pensionskasser" and "pensionsfonde" ?
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Oct 13, 2010 10:24: Christine Andersen Created KOG entry

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Pension funds or societies

Pension schemes are run in different ways in Denamrk, and it is not unusual for an individual to contribute to more than one scheme through banks, life insurance, workplaces and trade unions. Some are collective insurance-based funds and others are more personal schemes proportional with contributions.

Especially trade unions administer unemployment benefits and pension contributions (A-kasser).

To cover them all, I would probably write ´pension funds and superannuation schemes´

Both suggestions come from Gyldendals Røde Orbøger.

I am watching this space to see if anyone else has a better suggestion.

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Note added at 1 day16 hrs (2010-10-13 09:09:11 GMT)
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Having asked my economist husband, he said it was hard to draw a definitive line.
However, a ´ kasse´ is often understood as an organisation that administers a fund (Pensionskasse, arbejdsløshedskasse ... etc.)
´Fond´ refers more directly to the sum in the bank, but in practice the term is sometimes translated as foundation, and if you apply for a grant from a fund etc. then obviously you apply to the trustees.
Private funds/foundations sometimes like ´fond´ because they focus on the money invested or the purppose, and administration is regulated by the fundats (statues/charter/trust deed).

But a ´kasse´ may simply have different historical origins.
Peer comment(s):

agree Adrian MM. (X) : surely the other way round: superannuation schemes and pension funds
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Well, the suggestions came from the dictionary. Lyng Svensson gives fund for both, and suggests US retirement fund..
neutral Christopher Schröder : Are you saying that the difference is between occupational and personal pensions? /// OK, thanks. Sounds like "pension funds" would cover both then!
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No. The fact is that some call themselves ´fonde´and others ´kasser´ and I am not sure there is much difference, or what it might be.
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retirement funds

Retirement funds; though by life insurance companies they are usually endowments.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2010-10-11 20:00:13 GMT)
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Could also say "Retirement Plans" (depending upon context).
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