Gen Z adults ‘risk creating retirement shortfalls amid living costs squeeze’
More than half (53%) of Gen Z adults aged 18 to 29 could be at risk of reducing their pension contributions ov ...
China’s Retirement Wave Is Here. The Pension Math Is Brutal
In 2022, people born in 1962 began turning 60. That was the start. Since then, more than 20 million people a y ...
Kazakhstanis’ pension savings reached 28.35 trillion tenge
As of August 1, 2026, the pension savings of Kazakhstanis amounted to 28.35 trillion tenge, an increase of 3.5 ...
UK pensions regulator presses DC schemes on value and DB trustees on surplus
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has urged pension trustees to determine the long-term future of defined benefit ( ...
Wealthy French quit failing state schools squeezed by pensions and austerity
Clemence Remy moved to the French city of Nantes in 2020 and enrolled her two girls in the local state school. ...
Does a Better Pension Buy Better Health? China’s Age-60 Threshold Says Not Necessarily
For decades, policymakers and economists have assumed a fairly intuitive chain of causation: a more generous p ...
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The impact of pension on the health behavior of elderly rural residents: evidence from China
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), […]
Retirement Security in the US Is Stuck in the Past
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, […]
The Pensions Brief: October 2026
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 […]
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Gen Z adults ‘risk creating retirement shortfalls amid living costs squeeze’
More than half (53%) of Gen Z adults aged 18 to 29 could be at risk of reducing their pension contributions over the next year or may have already stopped them, a survey indicates. The research, commissioned by pensions-finding platform Raindrop, found that younger adults indicated they were particularly at risk of sacrificing their longer […]
China’s Retirement Wave Is Here. The Pension Math Is Brutal
In 2022, people born in 1962 began turning 60. That was the start. Since then, more than 20 million people a year reach retirement age in China. On an average day, about 60,000 people stop working and start collecting a pension. This will continue for more than a decade. Between 1962 and 1975, China averaged […]
Kazakhstanis’ pension savings reached 28.35 trillion tenge
As of August 1, 2026, the pension savings of Kazakhstanis amounted to 28.35 trillion tenge, an increase of 3.50 trillion tenge (or 14.1%) over the past 12 months. The bulk of pension savings come from compulsory pension contributions (CPCs). As of August 1, 2026, their volume reached 26.31 trillion tenge, an increase of 2.69 trillion […]
UK pensions regulator presses DC schemes on value and DB trustees on surplus
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 […]