New Sierra Club Analysis Shows U.S. Public Pensions Hold Billions in Fossil Fuel Bonds
Today, Sierra Club released a new analysis of public data published by Urgewald on fossil fuel bond holdings a ...
UK. More than a third doubt their pension will provide a comfortable retirement
More than a third (36 per cent) of people do not believe their pension will provide a comfortable retirement, ...
The ‘one thing worth doing this month’ if you’re near or in retirement, says the head of Ally Invest
National inflation has hovered above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target for the past five years. For retirement s ...
US. 10 Million Seniors Live in Poverty—Even as They Hold Trillions in Housing Wealth
Older Americans are sitting on enormous amounts of housing wealth. At the same time, poverty among them is ris ...
Why resilience should define pension scheme investment strategy in an uncertain world
For much of the past two decades, the task facing trustees and investment teams of defined benefit (DB) pensio ...
Kenya. Pension sector’s next growth frontier is member engagement
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Population Aging and Fiscal Sustainability in Resource-Rich Economies: The Case of Chile
By Juan Medina, Michael Pedersen & gerardo reyes Emerging economies face long-run fiscal sustainability challenges associated with demographic change and the productive capacity of commodity sectors. Population aging can weaken labor supply growth, constrain tax bases, and increase age-related public expenditures, while declining productivity in non-renewable sectors may further limit fiscal capacity and economic growth. […]
Natural Buyers? Pension Funds and Treasury Exposure
By Aleksandar Andonov, Kristy Jansen & Joshua D. Rauh Long-maturity Treasury issuance reduces government rollover risk but depends on investors with structural demand for duration. We examine whether U.S. public pension funds, a $7 trillion sector, provide such demand, as is often presumed given their liabilities. Using security-level holdings, we show that Treasuries account for […]
Two Measures, Opposite Trends: Remittance Receipt in Mexican Household Surveys, 2008-2026
Por Walter Guevara Household surveys that ask about private transfers rarely separate support sent from abroad from the broader category of economic support a household may receive. Mexico’s National Survey of Occupation and Employment (ENOE) contains both items. This note documents that the two move in opposite directions over 2008-2026, and that the difference is […]
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New Sierra Club Analysis Shows U.S. Public Pensions Hold Billions in Fossil Fuel Bonds
Today, Sierra Club released a new analysis of public data published by Urgewald on fossil fuel bond holdings across 40 U.S. public pension funds, finding that fossil fuel debt remains embedded in public pension portfolios and available bondholding data are significantly incomplete. The analysis underscores that even if a public pension has a climate policy, […]
UK. More than a third doubt their pension will provide a comfortable retirement
More than a third (36 per cent) of people do not believe their pension will provide a comfortable retirement, while growing numbers are unsure whether their savings are on track, according to Trafalgar House’s 2026 Trust & Confidence Survey. The survey found that confidence in retirement outcomes remains low, with just 24.4 per cent agreeing […]
The ‘one thing worth doing this month’ if you’re near or in retirement, says the head of Ally Invest
National inflation has hovered above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target for the past five years. For retirement savers, this financial pressure has created a unique set of savings challenges, says Kunal Vaed, head of Ally Invest. One of the first steps? “It’s important to build a financial plan and revisit it regularly to dynamically adjust […]
US. 10 Million Seniors Live in Poverty—Even as They Hold Trillions in Housing Wealth
Older Americans are sitting on enormous amounts of housing wealth. At the same time, poverty among them is rising. About 10 million Americans aged 65 and older lived in poverty in 2025 under the Supplemental Poverty Measure, according to a new AARP Foundation analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Their poverty rate reached 15.4%—the highest […]