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The International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) is an independent international body representing those involved in the supervision of private pension arrangements. The organisation currently has around 60 members and observers representing approximately 50 countries and territories worldwide. [More...]
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18-Dec-2009
The IOPS jointly with the Turkish Treasury organised for a first time a workshop on pension supervision for the CIS, Kaukas and Central Asia region in the framework of its global outreach activities. The workshop aimed to address high-level topics debated in the course of reforms of pension supervisory regimes in the region.
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from 06-May-2010 to 07-May-2010
The main purpose of the Seminar is 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.
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07-Dec-2009
The Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (JPEF), the only academic journal focusing on the economics and finance of pensions and retirement income programs, announces a new editorial structure and a broadening of its mission effective January 2010. Since 2002, the JPEF has provided an invaluable and influential forum for original research and international policy debate in the pensions area.
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This page contains a list of meetings and events taking place within the programme of work of the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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16-Oct-2009
Participants at the annual IOPS/OECD Global Forum on Private Pensions discussed the impact and policy responses to the financial and economic crisis on the pension industry, with a particular focus on the major policy developments in the Brazilian pension industry.
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from 08-Oct-2009 to 09-Oct-2009
The IOPS Workshop on Private Pension Supervision was held in Jamaica on 8-9 October 2009. This was the first time that the IOPS organised a workshop for the Caribbean region in the framework of its global outreach activities. The discussion at the workshop focused on the following key areas: impact of the global financial crisis on pension funds; risk-based supervision; regulation and supervision of payout phase; use of intervention, sanction and enforcement powers; financial education; discussion on the development of a regional association of pension supervisors.
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14-Oct-2009
The Global Forum examined reform progress in the Latin American region and Brazil in particular, focusing on the main challenges facing DC private individual pension schemes – the main type of retirement arrangements in the region.
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