OECD: Mexico’s Pension System Remains a Work in Progress
Mexico has made substantial progress reforming its pension system over the past decade, but the work is far fr ...
US. Policy Uncertainty Is Muddling Retirement Planning – and Advisors Are Just as Confused
Planning for retirement has always been hard, but when government policy is unpredictable, it makes it even mo ...
Africa’s Largest Fund Manager Is Under Investigation. Who Is Protecting Public Servants’ Pensions?
The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) manages the retirement savings of more than a million public servants ...
US. Only 14% of Gen X Has a Pension. For a 53-Year-Old Riding an AI-Heavy S&P 500, Social Security Is the Only Floor Left.
Only 14% of Gen X has a pension, and roughly 40 to 50% of the S&P 500 is tied to AI-themed stocks, leaving ...
Can Kenya’s Sh2.81 trillion pension fund industry help build the country’s future?
Kenya is preparing to unlock trillions of shillings in pension savings to help finance major infrastructure, m ...
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 ...
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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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OECD: Mexico’s Pension System Remains a Work in Progress
Mexico has made substantial progress reforming its pension system over the past decade, but the work is far from finished, according to Pablo Antolín, Head of Insurance and Pensions, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The FIAP-WPA International Seminar 2026, held July 22–23 in San José, Costa Rica, Antolín says the system must continue adapting […]
US. Policy Uncertainty Is Muddling Retirement Planning – and Advisors Are Just as Confused
Planning for retirement has always been hard, but when government policy is unpredictable, it makes it even more challenging. For example, changes to Social Security and Medicare can put basic security at risk; changes to the tax system can scramble a household’s finances; and ballooning government debt can increase interest rates and slow the economy. […]
Africa’s Largest Fund Manager Is Under Investigation. Who Is Protecting Public Servants’ Pensions?
The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) manages the retirement savings of more than a million public servants in South Africa, making any question over its governance a matter of public concern. Development Diaries reports that the country’s Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has opened a formal investigation into the PIC, which is Africa’s largest asset manager, following the suspension of […]
US. Only 14% of Gen X Has a Pension. For a 53-Year-Old Riding an AI-Heavy S&P 500, Social Security Is the Only Floor Left.
Only 14% of Gen X has a pension, and roughly 40 to 50% of the S&P 500 is tied to AI-themed stocks, leaving Social Security as the only guaranteed income floor. Delaying Social Security from 62 to 70 raises a monthly benefit from roughly $1,680 to $2,976, and that inflation-adjusted gap compounds across a 25-year […]