By Yi Fan, Shuangshuang Song & Yewen Yu Population aging and fertility decline are occurring simultaneously worldwide, straining labor supply and pension systems. China began a gradual delayedretirement (GDR) reform in 2025, raising statutory retirement ages on different schedules for men, female cadres, and female workers across birth cohorts. To evaluate its effects on older […]

By Valter Manuel Gomes Neto Brazil’s rapid demographic transition presents growing challenges for the sustainability, coverage, and adequacy of its pension system. Although the 2019 pension reform improved fiscal sustainability, population ageing and persistent labour informality continue to place pressure on pension financing and old-age income security. Drawing on existing research and policy evidence, this […]

By Alfredo Merlet Between January and September 2026, Fund E, the most conservative of Chile’s five mandatory pension fund types, lost about ten per cent in real terms, its second-worst result on record, while the funds’ positions in foreign interest-rate derivatives swung to a reported valuation loss of about US$7.7 billion. This article asks why […]

British pension funds could have greater exposure to AI-related risks than trustees realise, Britain’s pensions ​regulator said on Thursday, and urged them to ‌challenge advisers on how a market downturn could affect their portfolios. In a statement the Pensions Regulator, or TPR, said AI ​was increasingly embedded across sectors, meaning even an ​apparently diversified portfolio […]

The Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator (OPFA) received a record 13 041 complaints in the past financial year, a 26% increase on the previous year, as unpaid retirement contributions, withdrawal disputes and challenges linked to the two-pot retirement system placed growing pressure on South Africa’s retirement funds industry. The figure is the highest in […]

South Australia’s former Governor, Her Excellency the Honourable Frances Adamson AC, will receive a pension of $159,024 every year for the rest of her life, InDaily can reveal. The pension was signed off by SA Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis on October 16 and appeared in Thursday’s Government Gazette. “I, the Hon. Tom Koutsantonis MP, Treasurer of […]

Private equity has again outperformed every other asset class in America’s public pension portfolios, delivering a median annualized return of 13.2% over the 10-year period ending June 30, 2025, according to the American Investment Council’s (AIC) 2026 Pension Trends Report, released this week. The annual study, which analyzed 200 U.S. public pension funds representing nearly […]