December 2025
22Dec

Charted: U.S. Population Growth by Year (2005-2055)

Key Takeaways In 2025, the U.S. population is forecast to grow 0.2% amid record-low fertility rates and an aging population. Over the next 30 years, population growth is expected to decline to zero. By 2048, population will peak, as net immigration growth and natural population decline (deaths > births) cancel each other out. U.S. population growth is slowing, and is projected to grind to a halt by 2048. Today, historically low fertility means births only marginally exceed deaths. Not only that, within the next...

December 22, 2025
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09Dec

US. 3 Big Changes for Retirement Planning in 2026

Provisions in Secure 2.0, OBBBA affect retirement savers and retirees. For retirement savers and retirees, the ringing in of the new year will bring more than the usual inflation adjustments to retirement contributions. The retirement legislation known as Secure 2.0 will also continue to phase in, bringing implications for retirement savers. In addition, the budget law known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has impacts for retirement savers and retirees. Here’s a roundup of three key retirement-related changes to watch...

December 9, 2025
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09Dec

Côte d’Ivoire Insurers Push for Pension Reform as Life-Insurance Penetration Stalls at 0.6%

Côte d’Ivoire’s Association of Insurance Companies (ASA-CI) has called for a mandatory supplementary pension plan for private-sector workers. The proposal was presented at the country’s first life-insurance conference, held in Abidjan on Dec. 3-4. Under the proposed scheme, private-sector employees would make additional contributions to boost their future retirement income, as the basic pension often fails to cover living costs, according to the ASA-CI. To support the new plan, the ASA-CI urged the government to develop tailored retirement savings and investment...

December 9, 2025
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09Dec

Germany. Merz hopes to avoid German coalition crisis with vow to overhaul pensions

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday his coalition has agreed to carry out a comprehensive pension reform next year, a move aimed at easing concerns over an interim pensions bill that had threatened to destabilise his government. The youth wing of Merz's conservatives had said they would not back the new bill, which aims to maintain current pension levels in relation to incomes while incentivizing people to work longer, as it would leave younger Germans to bear the costs. Their...

December 9, 2025
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09Dec

UK. The Pensions Regulator probes barriers to investment in private markets

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has launched an initiative to better understand the barriers people face when it comes to investing in private markets. Through the voluntary Mansion House Accord, 17 workplace pension providers have signalled their intent to invest more in private markets by 2030, including in the UK. The announcement in October of the Sterling 20 partnership between 20 of the UK’s largest pension funds and insurers has continued to build on that momentum. TPR published private markets guidance last year...

December 9, 2025
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03Dec

Panorama Social de América Latina y el Caribe, 2025: cómo salir de la trampa de alta desigualdad, baja movilidad social y débil cohesión social

Por CEPAL El Panorama Social de América Latina y el Caribe 2025 analiza la trampa de alta desigualdad, baja movilidad social y débil cohesión social que perpetúa la crisis de desarrollo en la región. La desigualdad es un fenómeno histórico, estructural y multidimensional que requiere una medición adecuada para diseñar políticas integrales que aborden sus múltiples causas. Superar la desigualdad implica enfrentar de forma integral las desigualdades causadas por las debilidades de los sistemas educativos y fortalecer el papel de...

December 3, 2025
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November 2025
27Nov

Germany’s pension reform becomes a generational conflict

As in France, pensions have become a source of political instability in Germany. For several weeks, the future of the system has poisoned the atmosphere within the government led by conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in office since May 6. Returning from his international trips focused on Ukraine, Merz has had to confront internal rebellion, described as the coalition's most serious crisis yet. The young elected members of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), gathered in the Junge Union organization, have challenged...

November 27, 2025
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September 2025
26Sep

FIAP advierte consecuencias por octavo retiro de AFP en Perú: 80% de los cotizantes se quedarán sin fondos

La vicepresidenta ejecutiva de la entidad, Karol Fernández, consideró que "en lugar de continuar dinamitando el ahorro previsional, el Perú necesita fortalecerlo". La Federación Internacional de Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (FIAP) advirtió que la aprobación de un octavo retiro desde las carteras previsionales en Perú tendrán "consecuencias preocupantes" para los afiliados. "Con los ocho retiros aprobados entre 2019 y 2025, los fondos ahorrados con tanto esfuerzo por los cotizantes peruanos se reducen desde US$ 52.254 millones a un monto en...

September 26, 2025
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26Sep

Colombia. Fondos privados de pensión ponen plazo para eventual nuevo sistema de jubilaciones

Los fondos privados de pensión en Colombia aseguraron que hay que aprobar más tiempo para la implementación de la reforma Pendiente de que la Corte Constitucional defina el futuro de la reforma al sistema de jubilaciones, los fondos privados de pensión en Colombia siguen pidiéndole al alto tribunal, así como al mismo Gobierno, claridades sobre los cambios que se vienen. Mientras tanto, los fondos privados de pensión en Colombia llaman la atención en que las condiciones sobre las que se aprobó...

September 26, 2025
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26Sep

UK. Industry urges policy shift to revive DB and accelerate CDC

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has called for a policy reboot to keep existing defined benefit (DB) schemes open and to fast-track collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes, as the relaunched Pensions Commission turns its attention to pensions adequacy. In a new paper, Past Lessons, Future Gains, SPP argued that the current adequacy crisis cannot be fixed by contribution reviews alone and urged the commission to examine the type of scheme people save into, warning that the long shift from...

September 26, 2025
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