2014

The central labour market organisations - the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK), the Local Government Employees (KT), the Finnish Confederation of Professionals STTK - which have negotiated the content of the forthcoming pension reform, have reached an agreement for a proposal for amendments to the earnings-related pension scheme.

This paper provides a review of the Swedish National Pension Funds based on international good practice and OECD guidelines. The paper focuses mainly on the general size and structure of the funds, the investment framework and the governance of the funds.

Det avholdes møte i Pensjonsforum 21. november med fokus på evalueringen av pensjonsreformen.

The present report focuses on the pre-campaign planning, the design, the delivery, and the monitoring and evaluation of National Pension Communication Campaigns in a range of OECD and non-OECD countries.

Striden om tjenestepensjon for kommuneansatte som i sin tid reserverte seg har gått flere runder i rettssystemet. Nå har Fagforbundets medlemmer også vunnet fram i lagmannsretten.

This paper examines and evaluates the content and design of the annual pension statement sent to members of funded defined contribution (DC) pension schemes in a selection of OECD and non-OECD countries.

To adapt pension systems to demographic trends, many countries are reducing pay-as-you-go public pension levels and lifting retirement ages. In this context, funded pensions could play a major role to avoid adequacy gaps.

At Budget 2014, the Chancellor announced that all restrictions on how individuals aged 55 and over can access their pensions will be lifted from April 2015 onwards. This briefing note provides an overview of findings from research, conducted on behalf of AllianceBernstein by Opinium research, with Defined Contribution savers around their needs under the new pension flexibilities.

This technical briefing note draws on the experience of running “Defined Ambition” style pension plans in the Netherlands. The recent experience of the Netherlands offers lessons for plans with similar risk-sharing or collective elements that could be established in the UK. 

Nordmenn er uvitende om hva de får i pensjon ved 67 år, men tror de får god økonomi som pensjonister. – Folks fremtidige pensjonistøkonomi er basert på tro og håp, og ikke kunnskap og fakta, sier Idar Kreutzer, administrerende direktør i Finans Norge.

This report reviews the existing evidence on pension fund investment in infrastructure in "new" markets, covering a number of non-OECD countries, such as Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa, as well as some OECD countries like Chile and Mexico.

Research shows that pensions help recruit and retain high-quality workers; thus, cutbacks in public pensions could hurt worker quality. One indicator of quality is the wage that a worker can earn in the private sector. Using this measure, states and localities consistently have a “quality gap” – the workers they lose have a higher private sector wage than those they gain.