September 2025
12Sep

The world’s largest pension funds – 2025

The global top 300 pension funds is an annual study conducted by the Thinking Ahead Institute, in conjunction with Pensions and Investments. The research highlights high-level trends in the pension fund industry and provides information on how the characteristics of these top funds have changed. The world’s top 300 pensions funds now stand at a record US$ 24.4 trillion This surpasses the previous record set in 2021, completing a three year recovery Yet asset growth slowed in 2024, increasing by 7.8% from...

September 12, 2025
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05Sep

The Future of Labour: How AI, Technological Disruption and Practice Will Change the Way We Work

By Anthony Larsson & Andreas Hatzigeorgiou The Future of Labour: How AI, Technological Disruption and Practice Will Change the Way We Work is an anthology that offers a forward-looking exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI), digitalisation and technological transformation are reshaping the future of work. Through a series of studies conducted by scientists and industry professionals, this volume takes a deep dive into many of the issues related to new policies, AI and the digital transformation’s anticipated impact on the labour market....

September 5, 2025
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August 2025
08Aug

Optimization Algorithms for Pension Asset Allocation Under Market Volatility

By Akshay Sharma & Satish Kabade Pension fund organizations function as essential financial entities that protect employee retirement funds to provide complete and punctual pension distributions. Pension fund effectiveness through asset distribution determines how well a fund meets its future obligations. Traditional methods of portfolio optimization align with the Modern Portfolio Theory through the Markowitz model to help determine asset allocation by defining the relationship between return and risk. These static modeling approaches fail to fulfill their purpose in real...

August 8, 2025
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April 2025
07Apr

US pension funds to target directors over AI oversight failings

US pension funds are sharpening their focus on director oversight of company AI usage, with three funds across the country adding language to their voting policies on holding them accountable for poor AI oversight. San Francisco’s $33 billion employee retirement system was the first fund to add language to this effect. Trustees voted this year to approve amendments to its proxy voting policy stating that, “where there is evidence that insufficient oversight and/or management of AI technologies has resulted in...

April 7, 2025
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03Apr

UK. AI ‘transforming’ pensions admin; use by members remains limited

Whilst artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to play an important role in pensions administration, its adoption by individual pension scheme members remains limited, according to the Trafalgar House Trust & Confidence Index. It found that despite a growing awareness of AI-driven tools, most people were not yet using AI to support their retirement decisions. When surveyed, only 8 per cent of the population reported using AI tools for pension planning. Indeed, the "overwhelming" majority (82 per cent) indicated that they had never...

April 3, 2025
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March 2025
28Mar

Can ChatGPT Plan Your Retirement?: Generative AI and Financial Advice

By Andrew W. Lo, Jillian Ross We identify some of the most pressing issues facing the adoption of large language models (LLMs) in practical settings, and propose a research agenda to reach the next technological inflection point in generative AI. We focus on four challenges facing most LLM applications: domain-specific expertise, an ability to tailor that expertise to a user’s unique situation, trustworthiness and adherence to the user’s moral and ethical standards, and conformity to regulatory guidelines and oversight. These...

March 28, 2025
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10Mar

Singapore’s population is aging fast. It hopes AI can help manage its elderly care

From listening devices that detect falls to “patient sitter” systems in hospitals and robots helping with exercise in care homes, Singapore is looking to artificial intelligence to help manage the health of its elderly population. By 2030, a quarter of Singaporeans will be 65 or older — in 2010, the figure was one in 10 — and it’s estimated that around 6,000 nurses and care staff will need to be hired annually to meet Singapore’s health workforce targets. Technology is much needed to help fill the...

March 10, 2025
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05Mar

The European country tearing up its pensions – and why Britain should take note

Apathy rules supreme in workplace pensions. Almost 30 million people work in the UK’s private sector and for many, a pension contribution is just another line on the monthly payslip. It’s precisely this mindset that government ministers were counting on when they introduced auto-enrolment in 2012, forcing employers into offering workplace pensions but leaving employees with the final decision. The hunch proved to be well-founded. Although workers can opt out at any time, very few have. Within a decade, the proportion with a workplace...

March 5, 2025
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04Mar

The Coming Revolution in Pension Investment Technology

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hot topic on Wall Street. It’s the new gold rush. Many of us are already using large language models to pull up and assemble information, and sometimes even draft written reports. “Sandboxes” are popping up all over to ingest data in various forms and swiftly produce inferential analytics that would take days for humans. The stock market has gone gaga for companies with credible AGI or quantum computing potential. Some industry leaders are envisioning “superintelligent” systems that theoretically could outthink most...

March 4, 2025
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February 2025
13Feb

Don’t expect AI to make pension decisions just yet, says CFA Institute

AI is steadily shaping the world of pension management, offering new efficiencies, deeper insights, and consistent challenges for pension managers, according to recent research from the CFA Institute. Genevieve Hayman, senior research affiliate at the CFA Institute, explained while AI’s role in pension management is still developing and surpassing efficiency gains, it’s not yet replacing the human decision-making process. Rather, machine learning tools are enhancing their ability to be more informed and accountable in their fiduciary duties, with AI being...

February 13, 2025
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