October 2026
16Oct

When Retirement Faces Climate Risks: Linking Socio-Economic Pathways with Financial Outcomes

By Stephanie Neal & Laurens Swinkels Standard analyses of retirement adequacy focus on financial metrics such as contribution rates and replacement ratios, while climate scenario studies typically emphasize broad macroeconomic outcomes. Neither approach, however, directly addresses what matters most to individuals: the quality of life in retirement. Retirement security under climate change is inherently multidimensional, shaped not only by financial wealth but also by health systems, infrastructure, environmental conditions, and social resilience. We develop an integrated framework that combines qualitative...

October 16, 2026
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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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September 2026
25Sep

The US homeless population is aging. Cities must brace for new challenges

As cities and counties struggle with upticks in homelessness, they’re facing yet another challenge: an aging population. By the mid 2030s, the U.S. will have more older adults than children for the first time in its history, the U.S. Census Bureau predicts. The fastest-growing group of people experiencing homelessness is those aged 65 and older, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. And as the oldest baby boomers turn 80 this year, the aging population is coming up against...

September 25, 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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14Aug

Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean: inclusion and rights of older persons

By NU & CEPAL In Latin America and the Caribbean, population ageing —a demographic phenomenon that is characterized by an increase in the proportion of older persons and the lengthening of the life cycle— presents both opportunities and challenges for public policy. This document presents the report of Latin America and the Caribbean for the fourth review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002. The report analyses the current situation of ageing in the region and...

August 14, 2026
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July 2026
28Jul

US. Policy Uncertainty Is Muddling Retirement Planning – and Advisors Are Just as Confused

Planning for retirement has always been hard, but when government policy is unpredictable, it makes it even more challenging. For example, changes to Social Security and Medicare can put basic security at risk; changes to the tax system can scramble a household’s finances; and ballooning government debt can increase interest rates and slow the economy. A 2025 survey conducted by Greenwald Research of 1,443 individuals ages 45-79 with over $100,000 in investable assets revealed that older Americans were keenly aware...

July 28, 2026
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24Jul

Transductive infrastructure: The role of ICTs in the UK and EU’s policy initiatives on financial literacy

By Jing Wang & Jiuheng He Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become central to public-facing policy programs, yet they remain undertheorized, only treated as either instruments or objects of such policies. This paper argues that ICTs in such programs operate as transductive infrastructures, a delivery chain not only transmitting policy information but also defining the intentions and consequences of the stakeholders. Through a comparative analysis of three recent financial literacy initiatives: the UK's Money and Pensions Service, the European...

July 24, 2026
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10Jul

Regulatory Priorities: Pensions

By Financial Conduct Authority The Regulatory Priorities report for the pensions sector includes the following priorities: Ensuring well-run schemes that provide value for money to savers: The FCA explains that it expects the proposed workplace pensions Value for Money framework and the Government’s wider Pension Schemes Bill to help drive positive change and that it wants firms to engage in the development of these changes and prepare to implement and embed them in a way that best supports savers. Encouraging effective...

July 10, 2026
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May 2026
22May

Pension Policy Preferences: Beliefs about Others

By Carmen Sainz Villalba This paper studies the relationship between preference for government regulation on pensions both for the respondent and for the population as a whole. We conduct a survey experiment where we provide information on own characteristics and on characteristics about individuals in other income brackets to assess the impact on the preferences for themselves and others. We find that respondents who overestimate the pension coverage for low income earners are more likely to want less regulation for...

May 22, 2026
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15May

A PRISMA-Based Systematic Review of Gender Inequality in Uruguay’s Pension System

By Emre Kurt This paper examines the gendered effects of pension and retirement systems in Uruguay through a systematic literature review, motivated by persistent inequalities arising from contributory social protection models that reflect labor-market disparities and unequal caregiving responsibilities. Using the PRISMA 2020 framework, the study identifies and evaluates 21 relevant studies selected from an initial pool of 205 records, applying a gender-audit approach to distinguish between research with central and partial gender analysis. The findings reveal a methodologically diverse...

May 15, 2026
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