July 2025
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

Global Aging and Growth: Is There a Silver Dividend?

By Donghyun Park & Kwanho Shin Despite concerns about the economic impact of population aging, this study highlights the potential for a 'silver dividend' as longer lifespans extend working lives. We show that the effects of aging on growth are highly nonlinear and concentrated in more advanced, older economies. Labor shortages are often offset by rising labor force participation, particularly in countries with higher life expectancy, stronger human capital, and greater trade openness. Larger governments, measured by consumption, appear to...

July 11, 2025
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11Jul

Roadmap for Retirement: The Case for a National Pension Dashboard

By Kathryn Bush Retirement planning is getting harder for Canadians as more savings shift to definedcontribution plans, and account information is scattered across institutions. Given current financial literacy levels in Canada, many people struggle to understand what they'll have to live on in retirement. A pension dashboard could help by bringing all their retirement savings and benefits into one place. A pension dashboard is a government or government-sanctioned online tool that shows individuals all their retirement income sources-including government benefits,...

July 11, 2025
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11Jul

The Pensions Review: final recommendations

By Jonathan Cribb, Carl Emmerson, Paul Johnson, Heidi Karjalainen & Laurence O’Brien This final report of the Pensions Review, a major project launched in April 2023 by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, in partnership with abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, examines the main risks to today’s working-age individuals in the UK pension system and sets out policy proposals primarily focused on improving outcomes for future generations of retirees. This report does further analysis and draws on the large number of reports...

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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09Jul

Los grupos discriminados en México y su relación con la informalidad laboral

Por David Robles-Ortiz  La discriminación y la informalidad laboral son temas pendientes en la agenda pública de México. De acuerdo con cifras oficiales, en el país se identifican 7 grupos típicamente discriminados: personas con diversidad religiosa, etnias y afrodescendientes, adolescentes, adultos mayores, discapacitados, migrantes y mujeres. En el caso de la informalidad laboral, cerca del 60% de la población trabajadora del país indica no contar con acceso a la seguridad social por parte de su empleo, es decir, son informales....

July 9, 2025
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02Jul

Consideraciones sobre la Reforma al Sistema Público de Pensiones de Panamá en el Proyecto de Ley 163 de 2024

Por Luis Antonio Pereira Sánchez El trabajo analiza la reforma al sistema público de pensiones de Panamá en el Proyecto de Ley 163 de 2024. Se utiliza información financiera de la Caja del Seguro Social (CSS) e información estadística y demográfica del Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo (INEC) y Naciones Unidas. Se realiza un análisis documental de la propuesta, presentando un resumen de sus aspectos centrales y, posteriormente, se realizan críticas al mismo desde una perspectiva jurídica y técnica...

July 2, 2025
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02Jul

Trabajadores independientes: su inserción en la seguridad social en México

Por María Ascensión Morales Ramírez La informalidad, como resultado de la incapacidad de las economías para generar empleos productivos, así como de los cambios experimentados en el mundo del trabajo y la disrupción de las tecnologías, han generado un aumento de categorías que adoptan la forma de “trabajadores independientes”. Siempre ha resultado difícil implementar políticas y estrategias para la inserción de este sector en la seguridad social, porque la categoría comprende a un grupo heterogéneo, con disimiles ocupaciones e ingresos, y...

July 2, 2025
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June 2025
27Jun

The At Retirement Reckoning: Barnett Waddingham’s investigation into the UK’s retirement landscape

By Barnett Waddingham The British pensions industry is, once again, at a critical juncture. It seems every provider, regulator, and adviser is watching with bated breath as the time bomb of UK retirement saving ticks closer to detonation. And with every new day, the likely ripple effects of the impending disaster get bigger. The past 14 years of Conservative rule saw the pension landscape shift notably. The introduction of auto-enrolment in 2012 successfully widened the UK’s saving base and helped tackle...

June 27, 2025
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27Jun

LGBTQ+ Aging and Retirement Issues: A Critical Review of Current Studies and Knowledge Gaps

By Julie Duda, Bri Bloxsom & Manshreya Grover This paper presents a detailed review of select studies on the experiences and challenges faced by LGBTQ+ older adults, particularly in the context of aging and retirement. Through a systematic analysis of fourteen studies, this review aims to provide a nuanced understanding of the issues encountered by this population, highlighting key themes including discrimination, healthcare access, social support, resilience, end-of-life preparation, and mental health. There exists a broad body of scholarly work that has shed light on...

June 27, 2025
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