BBC Africa Have Your Say: Interview with IOPS Vice-President and IOPS Secretariat

20-May-2010

Edward Odundo (Vice President of IOPS) and Fiona Stewart (IOPS Secretariat) took part in this worldservice debate on pensions in Africa on 19 May 2010.

IAA April Special Newsletter

20-May-2010

A special issue of the IAA Newsletter, April 2010, is now available on the IAA home page. The main purpose of this special issue is to report on the recent Council and Committee meetings in Cape Town, South Africa.

Pension Funds Recovering in 2009, says OECD

26-Oct-2009

Pension funds staged a partial recovery in the first half of 2009, generating investment returns of 3.5% in nominal terms. But, as of 30 June 2009, total pension funds assets still remained 14% below their December 2007 levels, according to the latest edition of OECD Pensions Markets in Focus.

Private pensions need long-term, appropriate performance benchmarks

19-Oct-2009

The OECD and the World Bank today announced the preliminary results of their project evaluating the financial performance of pension funds around the world.

The project aims to examine how to measure financial performance of pension funds taking into account the link between participants’ benefits to the performance of financial markets.

Pension supervisors strengthen global oversight

19-Oct-2009

The International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) approves a series of guidelines and reports designed to strengthen the supervisory oversight of global pension systems and protect vulnerable pension fund members and retirees in the face of challenging and volatile economic conditions.

Register to receive email alerts: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance

14-Oct-2009

Since its founding in 2001, the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (JPEF) has served as the only peer-reviewed journal focusing on pension economics and finance issues.  Through its association with the OECD and the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS), JPEF has become an influential outlet for research on pension issues and is widely circulated to the top academic departments as well as leading regulators, policymakers and international organisations.

3rd FIAP - ASOFONDOS International Congress 15-16 April 2010, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

from 15-Apr-2010 to 16-Apr-2010

The presentations of the speakers at the 3rd FIAP - ASOFONDOS International Congress 'The global recovery process: a view from the Private Pension Systems' are now available.

FIAP International Seminar: Developing the Potential of the Individually Funded Pension Systems, 6-7 May 2010, in Viña del Mar, Chile

from 06-May-2010 to 07-May-2010

The main purpose of the Seminar was to identify means and instruments whereby the pension fund managers can broaden their current efforts for solving the pension problem and furthermore, extend them to other areas of interest so as to improve the quality of the population’s social security protection.

Presentations from this seminar are now available.

EFRP 2009 European Pension Funds Congress: 17 November, Frankfurt, Germany

on 17-Nov-2009

The main purpose of the conference is to provide the opportunity for a stimulating debate with leaders of the European pension funds community on a number of private pension policy issues.
The Congress will dedicate a session to DC pension provision, the fastest growing segment of the private pension market in Europe. It will present important EFRP research on DC pension provision in Europe.

IOPS Caribbean Regional Workshop on private pension supervision, 8-9 October, Jamaica

from 08-Oct-2009 to 09-Oct-2009

The workshop aimed to address a wide range of topics which are of interest to supervisory agencies in the Caribbean region as well as other countries globally. The application and use of the internationally agreed IOPS Principles of Private Pension Supervision was also be considered, and ways to reinforce supervisory coordination in the Caribbean region (including consideration of the development of a Caribbean Association of Pension Supervisors) were discussed.

"Pensions and Benefits in a Changing Global Environment" - CBA/PIEBLA Conference held on 20-22 June 2010

from 20-Jun-2010 to 22-Jun-2010

The "Pensions and Benefits in a Changing Global Environment" conference, produced jointly by the Canadian Bar Association and the International Pension and Employee Benefit Lawyers Association was held on 20-22 June 2010 at Le Château Frontenac hotel in Quebec City, Canada. 

FIAP International Seminar 2009: “Investments and Payouts in Funded Pension Systems”: 28-29 May 2009, Warsaw, Poland

from 28-May-2009 to 29-May-2009

The objective of the Seminar was to promote the discussion of the best practices and regulations on several issues related both to the accumulation and decumulation stages of funded pension systems.

The First CEEC Forum Conference, Tuesday, 24 March 2009, Budapest, Hungary

on 24-Mar-2009

The CEEC Forum Conference was organised on 24 March 2009. The event was hosted by the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority and the conference program included speakers from that Institution as well as from the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors.

Topics discussed included:  pay-out phase of mandatory DC pension accounts; testimonials: financial crisis and mandatory private pension systems; investment restrictions and supervision for mandatory pension management companies /providers.