October 2026
02Oct

The Underpensioned: Updating the Gender Pension Gap

By Pensions Policy Institute The Gender Pension Gap (GPG) is a measure of difference, or inequality, in pension outcomes for men and women. This can be considered in terms of either the disparity in the pension wealth accumulated or by the income they receive in retirement as a result of that pension wealth. It has been suggested that the GPG should be subject to statutory reporting requirements, in the same way as the Gender Pay Gap.8 While the GPG is widely...

October 2, 2026
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02Oct

Workforce Turnover and Retention in the Public Sector: Insights from Public Pension Plans

By Barbara Butrica & Dan Doonan Workforce turnover has implications for employees and employers. On the employee side, turnover can involve lost wages and benefits. On the employer side, turnover can involve the loss of experienced employees as well as the investments made in training them. It also generates additional costs associated with recruiting and training replacement workers. Understanding the timing of turnover and how retention evolves over employees’ careers is important for economic security, workforce planning, public service delivery,...

October 2, 2026
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September 2026
25Sep

PSCA’s Annual 401(k) Survey

By PSCA PSCA's Annual Survey of Profit Sharing and 401(k) Plans, now in its sixth decade, offers the most comprehensive look at the defined contribution industry. The annual survey is used by plan sponsors to benchmark their plans and ensure they are meeting participants' needs and creating a competitive benefit. It is also used by advisors and providers to help plan sponsors evaluate their plans and by legislators and government officials when evaluating the impact of new regulations. Get the report...

September 25, 2026
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23Sep

2026 Global Retirement Index: All things must pass

By Natixis “Will my pension be enough?” “How much do I have to save?” “ How long will it have to last?” These are the fundamental questions behind one of the most complicated math problems individuals will ever attempt to solve and not one of the variables is defined. Nobody knows how long they’re going to live. Nobody knows how much things will cost. Nobody knows what health, economic, or environmental disruptions they’ll face along the way. Lacking the data for a precise answer,...

September 23, 2026
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11Sep

The world’s largest pension funds 2026

By Thinking Ahead Institute The Global Top 300 Pension Funds is Thinking Ahead Institute’s annual deep-dive into the world’s largest pension funds, produced with Pensions & Investments. For well over two decades, it has served as a rare longitudinal record of how these giants are evolving, and what that means for the industry at large. Get the report here    

September 11, 2026
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11Sep

WTW 2026 Defined Contribution Survey: Employers face a retirement readiness gap, and pressure is mounting to prove plans work

By WTW  U.S. employers are facing a clear retirement readiness challenge: they value defined contribution (DC) plans, but many still lack a precise view of whether those plans are helping employees retire on time and with confidence. That is according to the WTW 2026 Defined Contribution Survey from WTW (NASDAQ: WTW), a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company. In the survey of 547 U.S. plan sponsors, 60% have a working definition of retirement readiness, split among income replacement (40%),...

September 11, 2026
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04Sep

Global pension asset allocations and debt markets

By Ding Ding, Xiang Fang, Bryan Hardy & Karen K. Lewis The pension sector is an important investor group in global financial markets and a key holder of government and corporate debt. This article examines the evolution of pension fund asset allocations around the globe and documents two important structural changes. First, pension investors have shifted portfolio share allocations away from fixed income securities. This trend is robust across Defined Contribution (DC) and Defined Benefit (DB) programs as well as...

September 4, 2026
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04Sep

Pensions 2050: Evidence and future priorities

By Jack Jones The second Pension Commission’s interim report provides a clear and urgent call to action. It describes a system in which, although participation rates in workplace pensions have doubled due to auto-enrolment, up to 19 million working age people are not on track to meet the retirement income targets set by the first Pension Commission. The triple locked flat-rate State Pension provides a firm foundation on which retirement incomes are built, and auto-enrolment has more than doubled the numbers...

September 4, 2026
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August 2026
28Aug

Retirement Insecurity 2026: Americans’ Views of Retirement

By Barb Butrica, Dan Doonan & Kelly Kenneally As affordability pressures squeeze household budgets, Americans increasingly fear they will not be financially secure in retirement, while also expressing caution about artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency in retirement planning, according to a new national public opinion report, Retirement Insecurity 2026: Americans’ Views of Retirement. The research finds that 80% of Americans say the nation faces a retirement crisis, up sharply from 67 percent in 2020. Additionally, more than six in ten Americans (61...

August 28, 2026
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28Aug

Measuring the Fiscal Sustainability of Public Pensions

By National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems When budgets tighten and the economy falters, some states and localities have reacted to worries about pension funding ratios and unfunded liabilities by increasing employee contributions and cutting benefits. Some have even closed pension plans to new hires. Yet public pensions have a strong record of delivering retirement security efficiently: NCPERS’ 2025 update of its landmark economic impact study finds that public pensions generated $2.9 trillion in economic output and $661.9 billion in...

August 28, 2026
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