By Louis Compton, Magdalena Walbaum, David R. Sinclair, Gemma Spiers, Barbara Hanratty, Raphael Wittenberg Background: The UK aimed to prolong the working lives of women by introduced a policy raising women’s state pension age (SPA) from 60 to 66. The impact of involuntary prolonged employment on individual’s health and well-being is debated. We explore how […]

By Brian Peters The Chinese current-account surplus has averaged approximately 2 percent of GDP since 2015, declining from a 2007 peak near 10 percent yet remaining far above what its income level and demographic structure would predict in a global panel. We estimate this gap as the residual against the income-conditional demographic baseline fitted on […]

By Vanya Horneff, Raimond Maurer, Olivia S. Mitchell, Julius Odenbreit Nursing home costs in the United States now exceed $100,000 per year, and government assistance programs such as Medicaid help out only when retirees are largely destitute. Moreover, health shocks driving the need for such care can arise suddenly in old age, are frequently permanent […]

WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) today announced the launch of a new version of its Geospatial Mortality Model (GMM) intended for the U.S. pension risk transfer (PRT) market that will enable insurers and reinsurers to more accurately price and manage longevity risk. The model – already used by U.S. pension plan sponsors to set longevity assumptions – […]

The Investing and Saving Alliance (TISA) has urged the Pensions Commission to set out a timetable for increasing minimum auto-enrolment pension contributions to 12%. The trade body warned that current contribution levels are unlikely to deliver adequate retirement incomes for millions of savers. In its response to the Commission’s interim report, TISA proposed phasing in […]

Nigeria’s pension assets rose ​51% in two years to ‌31.48 trillion naira ($22.80 billion), while membership of the country’s contributory pension scheme ​grew by nearly 1 ​million workers to 11.32 million, the ⁠National Pension Commission (PenCom) said on Tuesday. PenCom ​chief Omolola Oloworaran told reporters ​that assets under management increased from 20.79 trillion naira in […]

Strong performance in both its public and private equity portfolios helped the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) achieve a preliminary net investment return of 14.8% for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2026, the pension system reported Monday. The 2025-26 fiscal year return exceeded both last year’s 11.6% performance and the assumed 6.8% rate […]