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 ...
US. How every state’s public pension system ranks
Reason Foundation’s 2025 Pension Solvency and Performance Report ranks every state’s pension system across fiv ...
Ghanaian pension funds to invest $11m in Atlantic Lithium as Ewoyaa Project gains momentum
A consortium of Ghanaian pension funds has committed millions of dollars to Atlantic Lithium, marking a landma ...
UGM Expert Warns Pension Coverage in Indonesia Remains Limited
The Ministry of Finance projects that around 100 million Indonesians may face retirement without pension savin ...
Global report identifies 6 trends redefining aging well — with takeaways for US senior living
Aging well increasingly is being defined not simply by longevity or the absence of disease, but by functional ...
It’s thanks to Social Security wealth inequality isn’t even worse, Wharton economist says. Trump’s policies will push it to insolvency in 6 years
America’s debt burden is caught in a death loop, and President Donald Trump’s policy agenda has accelerated th ...
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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. Govt urged to carefully consider interventions in pension scheme investment
The government should carefully consider any intervention in domestic pension scheme investment and identify the specific ‘market failures’ it intends to address, a joint report from Frontier Economics and LCP has argued. The UK pension schemes and productive finance – a framework for effective intervention report argued there was no clear case for the government to override […]
US. How every state’s public pension system ranks
Reason Foundation’s 2025 Pension Solvency and Performance Report ranks every state’s pension system across five dimensions—funded status, investment performance, contribution adequacy, asset allocation risk, and the probability of meeting assumed returns—based on the latest fiscal year data from nearly every major plan in the country. The sections below summarize the strongest and weakest performers in […]
Ghanaian pension funds to invest $11m in Atlantic Lithium as Ewoyaa Project gains momentum
A consortium of Ghanaian pension funds has committed millions of dollars to Atlantic Lithium, marking a landmark domestic investment in what is expected to become Ghana’s first lithium-producing mine and signalling growing local confidence in the country’s emerging critical minerals sector. The investment, valued at up to US$11 million, forms part of a broader funding […]
UGM Expert Warns Pension Coverage in Indonesia Remains Limited
The Ministry of Finance projects that around 100 million Indonesians may face retirement without pension savings by 2038. This condition is considered a serious alarm for the national labor system. Several factors contribute to the public’s lack of pension savings: most people set aside only about 3 percent of their income, whereas financial security standards […]