UK pension giants join forces to unlock £1bn to back Britain’s innovators
A consortium of some of the UK’s largest pension providers, today (Monday 27 July) announce their commitment t ...
Nigeria. Hardship threatens personal pension plan, 92% of accounts dormant
More than 90 per cent of informal sector workers who enrolled in the Personal Pension Plan, PPP, have abandone ...
US. How Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z Differ in Retirement Preparedness
Get personalized, AI-powered answers built on 27+ years of trusted expertise. Less than half (42%) of American ...
U.S. Public Pensions Reach Best Funded Status Since 2009 – But Remain $1.13 Trillion Short
America's state and local pension systems are in their strongest funded position since 2009, according to Sta ...
UK. Torsten Bell reappointment welcomed as pension reforms gather pace
Torsten Bell’s reappointment to his dual role at the Department for Work and Pensions and HM Treasury has been ...
US. DOL Brief Sides With Bristol-Myers in PRT Appeal
The U.S. Department of Labor has expanded its campaign to defend employers’ utilization of pension risk transf ...
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Transductive infrastructure: The role of ICTs in the UK and EU’s policy initiatives on financial literacy
By Jing Wang & Jiuheng He Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become central to public-facing policy programs, yet they remain undertheorized, only treated as either instruments or objects of such policies. This paper argues that ICTs in such programs operate as transductive infrastructures, a delivery chain not only transmitting policy information but also defining […]
When States Break Promises: Informal Insurance Responses to Pension Reform
By Alina Malkova When governments expand pension systems, families reduce intergenerational transfers. This paper tests the reverse: do families substitute back toward informal insurance when governments renege on pension promises? I study Russia’s 2014 funded pension freeze, which eliminated future contributions for workers born after 1967, using RLMS panel data (2010–2023) and a cohort difference-in-differences […]
Retirement at Risk: The Political Economy of Public Pension Governance
By Allen Mendenhall & Dan Sutter State public pension systems manage over $6 trillion in assets while facing approximately $1.3 trillion in unfunded liabilities, raising fundamental questions about governance effectiveness and fiduciary accountability. This Article examines these challenges through the analytical framework of governance, applying insights from public choice, principal-agent models, and corporate governance to […]
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UK pension giants join forces to unlock £1bn to back Britain’s innovators
A consortium of some of the UK’s largest pension providers, today (Monday 27 July) announce their commitment to explore the establishment of a first-of-its-kind vehicle dedicated to investing in scaling UK businesses. The ambition is a fund of sufficient scale to target the best opportunities born out of UK innovation in science and technology. The […]
Nigeria. Hardship threatens personal pension plan, 92% of accounts dormant
More than 90 per cent of informal sector workers who enrolled in the Personal Pension Plan, PPP, have abandoned the scheme, as subscribers blame worsening economic hardship for their inability to make regular pension contributions. Financial Vanguard findings show that only 17,320, representing eight per cent of the 215,412 registered Retirement Savings Accounts, RSAs, under the scheme, […]
US. How Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z Differ in Retirement Preparedness
Get personalized, AI-powered answers built on 27+ years of trusted expertise. Less than half (42%) of Americans are on track for retirement, according to Vanguard research. Of all the generations, baby boomers are among the least prepared: just 40% are on track to maintain their lifestyle in retirement. Gen X (41%) and millennials (42%) are […]
U.S. Public Pensions Reach Best Funded Status Since 2009 – But Remain $1.13 Trillion Short
America’s state and local pension systems are in their strongest funded position since 2009, according to State of Pensions 2026, Equable Institute’s seventh annual analysis of 253 statewide and municipal retirement systems across all 50 states and D.C. The national funded ratio is projected to reach 85.0% in FY2026, up 3.9 points from 81.2% in […]