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 ...
HelaGo Partners with Social Security Board to Launch Pension Scheme for Sri Lanka’s Taxi Drivers
HelaGo, Sri Lanka’s emerging ride-hailing platform, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ...
The big squeeze on health care—how shifting demographics and geographical divide are reshaping policy
Our world is changing fast, and so are our healthcare needs. Demographic shifts—rapidly aging populations, fal ...
UK. Govt urged to carefully consider interventions in pension scheme investment
The government should carefully consider any intervention in domestic pension scheme investment and identify t ...
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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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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 […]
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 retirement savings to stay afloat. Early data shows a sharp rise in withdrawals from the two-pot retirement system as the new tax year began in March. Financial journalist Maya Fisher-French has warned South Africans against rushing to access the savings […]
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 potential “pension shock” when they retire, the Social Market Foundation (SMF) has warned. The report found that 54 per cent of Gen X – those born between 1965 and 1980 – were projected to have retirement incomes […]
HelaGo Partners with Social Security Board to Launch Pension Scheme for Sri Lanka’s Taxi Drivers
HelaGo, Sri Lanka’s emerging ride-hailing platform, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Sri Lanka Social Security Board to introduce a government-backed pension scheme for taxi drivers, marking a significant step toward improving the long-term financial security of gig economy workers in the country. The initiative seeks to address a long-standing structural […]