By Rui Li, Duanyang Gao & Yuying Yang Background Unhealthy behavior is an important factor threatening the health of older rural residents in China. We examine the effects of receiving pension on elderly rural residents’ health behavior (namely conscious control of sugar, salt, and edible oil intake, as well as learning health or wellness knowledge), […]

By Catherine Thurtle Open a retirement statement today, and the numbers look a little better than in 2020. Open the news, and the ground looks a lot less steady. That gap sums up where retirement security stands in 2026. Fewer than six in 10 US residents (59%) agree they’re currently building, or have already built, […]

By Andrew Block & Katherine Carter The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published a market oversight report on investment by UK pension schemes in private markets, particularly UK private markets. Key findings include: Trustees are open to UK private market investments if the investments offered meet the scheme’s investment needs and characteristics. DC schemes and master […]

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has urged pension trustees to determine the long-term future of defined benefit (DB) schemes and prepare for new requirements on value for money and retirement income in defined contribution (DC) schemes. Speaking at an industry event, TPR chief executive officer Nausicaa Delfas said the regulator wanted to see fewer, larger, well-run […]

Clemence Remy moved to the French city of Nantes in 2020 and enrolled her two girls in the local state school. The teachers were good, but she grew so exasperated ​by rolling staff strikes that she eventually put them in a private school. Those concerns about state schools have helped fuel some of France’s most […]

For decades, policymakers and economists have assumed a fairly intuitive chain of causation: a more generous pension means more money in old age, more money means better food, better care, less stress, and therefore better health. A new study drawing on nationwide Chinese survey data puts that assumption under an unusually rigorous statistical microscope, and […]

Nearly all (94 per cent) investors with net-zero targets said they would maintain those commitments regardless of government policy, despite ongoing concerns over political and regulatory uncertainty, according to Robeco’s Global Climate Investing Survey. According to the research, which surveyed 200 institutional and wholesale investors, including pension funds, 45 per cent of respondents rated uncertainty […]