Banking and Financial Unions Challenge Joaquín Cortez’s Appointment as Superintendent of Pensions
Union organizations asserted that Joaquín Cortez's education at the Pontifical Catholic University and the Uni ...
UK. Pensions and savings hammered as threat of ‘full-scale economic war’ sends shares tumbling
More than £50billion was wiped off the value of the London stock market today – taking losses since the start ...
Risks, returns and realism: Mapping the future of pension investment
By Nicolas Firzli and Nick Sherry Former Australian pensions minister Nick Sherry and World Pensions Forum di ...
UK pension investors cut US exposures amid global volatility
UK institutional investors responded to last year’s trade, tariff and geopolitical disruption with selective c ...
South Africa households dip into retirement savings as withdrawals surge
South African households are coming under increasing financial pressure, with many now turning to their retire ...
More than half of Gen X heading for ‘pension shock’
More than half of Generation X are heading for inadequate retirement incomes, with 7.5 million people facing a ...
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Pension and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Sweden’s Transition from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution
By Ai Jun Hou, Di Cui, Mingfa Ding, Yikai Han & Xiaoyang Li Sweden’s 1999 pension reform-which replaced a defined-benefit (DB) regime with a notional defined-contribution (DC) scheme-changed incentives in ways that affect employees’ career choice over the life cycle. We use Swedish administrative data and a difference-indifferences approach to study the impact of this […]
Challenges of the Power of the New Longevity: Age Discrimination in the Workplace, and More, in Argentina
By Virginia Marturet Life expectancy has significantly increased, reaching an average of 77 years in Argentina. The current challenge is to enhance the quality of those years. Age discrimination is the third leading cause of discrimination worldwide and is prevalent in Argentina, particularly in workplaces, society, and daily life. Our current challenge is to make […]
Why Social Security Is Essential to Measuring Wealth Inequality
By Knowledge at Wharton Staff In this Q&A, professor Sylvain Catherine discusses why including Social Security fundamentally changes how we measure wealth inequality. His paper “Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality” was co-authored by Max Miller and Natasha Sarin and recently won the Dimensional Fund Advisors First Prize from the American Finance Association. The […]
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Banking and Financial Unions Challenge Joaquín Cortez’s Appointment as Superintendent of Pensions
Union organizations asserted that Joaquín Cortez’s education at the Pontifical Catholic University and the University of Chicago “is not an anecdotal detail but a clear signal of his ideological imprint, the same one that shaped the individual capitalization system imposed during the dictatorship and turned pensions into a business rather than a right.” In a […]
UK. Pensions and savings hammered as threat of ‘full-scale economic war’ sends shares tumbling
More than £50billion was wiped off the value of the London stock market today – taking losses since the start of the war on Iran to £225billion. On a brutal day for savers with money tied up in shares through their pensions, ISAs and other investments, the FTSE 100 index tumbled more than 200 points or 2 […]
Risks, returns and realism: Mapping the future of pension investment
By Nicolas Firzli and Nick Sherry Former Australian pensions minister Nick Sherry and World Pensions Forum director M Nicolas J Firzli explain their new model for visualising the future of asset allocation as interest in private markets and productive finance increases. We are living in the Age of Geo-Economics – defined by the second Trump presidency, […]
UK pension investors cut US exposures amid global volatility
UK institutional investors responded to last year’s trade, tariff and geopolitical disruption with selective changes rather than wholesale portfolio resets, according to new research. Figures from Nuveen’s 2026 EQuilibrium Global Institutional Investor Survey showed that 11% of UK investors made significant portfolio changes in response to the disruptions of 2025, the second-highest proportion globally. But the […]