February 2026
20Feb

Mission Driven Public Sector Pension Investment Board

By PSP Investments  Our mission inspires us. Together with our mandate. it shapes how we invest. We focus on the long term and seek to caretully consider sustainability-related risks and opportunities that may affect long-term value creation and the resilience of our portfolio. We are progressively embedding accountability for sustainability across the organization. As we proceed, we are learning and evolving our strategies with the aim of reaching better investment outcomes and improving our ability to deliver on our mandate. This report...

February 20, 2026
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06Feb

Multidisciplinary Pathways to Retirement Financial Literacy: An Experimental Comparison of Gamified and Infographic Interventions

By Chrizaan Grobbelaar & Liezel Alsemgeest Due to population ageing and a decline in the working-age population, retirees can no longer rely on government support in retirement, making financial literacy even more important for society to plan for retirement. The current low financial literacy levels globally are evident in the vast number of retirees retiring unprepared. Educating a society on the basics of financial literacy is not enough for them to make sense of pension rules, tax implications, or make...

February 6, 2026
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January 2026
09Jan

Pension Economics

By Torben M Andersen A coherent introduction to the economics of pensions is provided to give the reader insights in the many objectives addressed by pension systems and the design possibilities available. The text offers an in-depth overview of the literature and its main insights and conclusions with sufficient rigor to understand the basic mechanisms, but without excessive technical details, focusing on the intuition and implications of the results. The pros and cons of different pension schemes are discussed from...

January 9, 2026
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November 2025
21Nov

Enhancing Efficiency of Pension Schemes through Effective Risk Governance: A Kenyan Perspective

 By Sylvester Willys Namagwa The efficiency of pension schemes in Kenya invites elevated interest owing to the increasing pension contribution amounts and the expectation that benefits paid out of these schemes would protect members from old age poverty. The study investigates the intervening effect of risk management on the relationship between corporate governance and the efficiency of pension schemes in Kenya. The study employs panel data consisting of 896 observations from 128 schemes in a sample period from 2015 to...

November 21, 2025
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07Nov

Retirement reality: Managing money in mid-retirement

By Aviva People in their mid-70s overwhelmingly report that they want the security of an income for life, yet very few are confident that their savings will last. Many underestimate how long they need to budget for and tend not to engage with ongoing planning as they age. Modelling shows the risks of remaining in drawdown and the benefits of Flex First, Fix Later solutions that include later-life annuitisation as a way of addressing these challenges. Such an approach would...

November 7, 2025
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07Nov

Hidden in Plain Sight: Physical Risk in Asset Owners’ Portfolios

By Xinxin Wang, Jascha Lehmann, Russ Bowdrey & Lisa Eichler Corporate asset locations are a critical source of financial-risk intelligence for investors. More so when coupled with powerful overlays related to physical climate risk. MSCI’s new study, conducted in collaboration with Swiss Re Risk Data Solutions, analyzed more than 11,000 companies and 500,000 physical assets underpinning the listed-equity portfolios of 18 leading asset owners, representing USD 4 trillion in AUM. Location isn’t just geography, it’s financial risk exposed. The location of companies’...

November 7, 2025
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October 2025
24Oct

International Pension Plan Survey 2025

By WTW Employers expand plan eligibility and enhance inclusivity to become more responsive to employee needs. International Pension Plans (IPPs) and International Savings Plans (ISPs) were originally used by multinational employers to provide retirement or savings benefits to employees who may not be eligible for home country retirement plans or where local (host) solutions are unavailable or unsuitable. Today, they have evolved beyond their traditional expatriate focus to include a wider range of employees including local employees, especially in regions...

October 24, 2025
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July 2025
25Jul

State of the nation: DB endgames – where are we now and what’s next?

By Laura McLaren & Lauren Branney  For those managing defined benefit (DB) pension schemes, it’s a pivotal and exciting time. The pensions landscape has changed significantly in recent years, opening up new strategic possibilities. We’ve seen record-breaking activity in the bulk annuity market and growing innovation in consolidation, and alternative risk transfer, leading to new settlement options. We’ve also seen more schemes considering the potential benefits of running on. We explore how the DB pensions environment has shifted, and what this could...

July 25, 2025
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11Jul

National Pension Fund and Stock Liquidity: Evidence from Korea

By Eunyoung Cho & Cheol-Won Yang We investigate the impact of the national pension’s trading on individual stock liquidity. While prior research has primarily focused on the effects of national pension funds on market performance or volatility, this paper shifts attention to liquidity, a relatively underexplored dimension of market quality. Utilizing detailed transaction-level data from the National Pension Service (NPS) of Korea between 2010 and 2019, we assess the relationship between NPS trading activity and stock liquidity by employing both...

July 11, 2025
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11Jul

Addressing the Challenges for Asset-backed Pensions in Indonesia

By Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development This report assesses the challenges to ensuring adequate benefits in retirement for the Indonesian population. The design of the asset-backed pension system aims to help individuals to accumulate resources to finance their retirement. However, the rules of the system may not help achieve the desired objectives, appropriate schemes or vehicles may not always be available and individuals may not necessarily make use of those available. This can lead to retirement savings gaps that...

July 11, 2025
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