South Korea. Prepare for era of extreme aging
Korea is on course to have the world’s oldest population by 2060, overtaking Japan. The projection is more tha ...
Bumper growth for world’s largest pension funds as UK market contracts
The UK was one of only two major pension markets to record a decline in assets over the past five years, accor ...
Top 300 pension funds’ AuM reaches record high
The world’s top 300 pension funds experienced the fastest growth in assets since 2017, according to the latest ...
US. DC plan sponsors struggle to define retirement readiness: WTW
A recent survey of more than 550 US employers by WTW has exposed an uncomfortable truth at the centre of defin ...
Ranked: How Much Pensions Replace Your Salary by Country
How much of your paycheck would a pension replace in retirement? Depending on the country, the answer ranges f ...
UK. How forestry scam drained pensions to buy ‘flash cars’
Staff at Ethical Forestry always knew when their bosses were around. Even though the business was on the top f ...
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Subjective Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning
By Weiqiang Tan & Jingbo Wu This research uses data from the National Financial Capability Study to investigate how subjective financial literacy (FL) influences retirement planning behaviors. Through a probit model, we establish that subjective FL have significant positive effects on three common retirement planning behaviors. When analyzing how subjective FL affects retirement planning, we […]
Redistribution through Taxes or Pensions? Optimal Income Tax and Pension Progressivity
By Burkhard Heer & Mark M. Trede We develop a medium-scale overlapping-generations model with endogenous labor supply and skill premium to study optimal income redistribution using progressive labor income taxes and pensions. The model is calibrated to the four countries USA, Great Britain, Italy and Germany which differ substantially in their tax and pension systems, […]
Pensions from Capital: How Pension Funds in the United States, Japan and Europe Invest -and What Private Investors Can Learn from Them
By Roland Rupprechter This paper examines the pension funds of the large industrial countries — with more than USD 68 trillion between them, the heaviest group of investors in the world. It compares how funded retirement provision is organised in the United States, in Japan and in Europe: how state, occupational and private provision differ, […]
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South Korea. Prepare for era of extreme aging
Korea is on course to have the world’s oldest population by 2060, overtaking Japan. The projection is more than a demographic curiosity. It is a warning that one of the world’s most advanced economies is approaching an unprecedented test of its pension, health care, labor and fiscal systems. According to a 2025 report from the […]
Bumper growth for world’s largest pension funds as UK market contracts
The UK was one of only two major pension markets to record a decline in assets over the past five years, according to new research. This retrenchment comes as the world’s largest 300 pension funds saw their assets jump 13.4 per cent during 2025, to a record $27.7 trillion (£20.7 trillion). This is the fastest […]
Top 300 pension funds’ AuM reaches record high
The world’s top 300 pension funds experienced the fastest growth in assets since 2017, according to the latest report from the Thinking Ahead Institute. The report found that assets under management grew by 13.4% in 2025, reaching a record-high of $27.7 trillion. The growth was most pronounced among the largest of these 300 pension funds, […]
US. DC plan sponsors struggle to define retirement readiness: WTW
A recent survey of more than 550 US employers by WTW has exposed an uncomfortable truth at the centre of defined contribution plan governance: a large majority of plan sponsors have no formal definition of what retirement readiness means for their workforce. “You can’t prove that your plan works if you haven’t defined what working […]