Petra Hielkema, chair of the EU’s pensions regulator Eiopa, wants to address the fact that EU citizens collectively hold around $39tn in savings but around a third of this is sitting in bank deposits - and she hopes reforms to pan-European pension products will help

Regulatory settings have nudged some of Australia’s largest superannuation funds into similar listed portfolios, so differentiation now happens in unlisted assets, where disclosures ranged from detailed to silent.

Germany’s pension commission has recently recommended moving to a Swedish pension system, and the Finnish government has appointed an independent expert to explore doing the same thing

In the first ever AOX Trends Report video, editor Damian Fantato talks to UK reporter Georgina McNamara about the UK government’s push for greater pension consolidation and whether the drive for bigger pension funds is in conflict with its desire to see pension funds invest ever-greater sums of money in British private equity.

The Brazilian Central Bank shut down Banco Master in 2025 after months of liquidity stress, rule breaches and a federal fraud investigation. This has kicked off a chain reaction which is causing problems for some of Brazil’s pension funds

The government increased the limit on offshore investment from 30 per cent to 45 per cent in 2022. But South African pension funds have failed to take advantage, until now

The deadline for implementing reforms to the Italian pension system has arrived but many of the affected funds have yet to apply the new rules

Analysis by Eläketurvakeskus, the Finnish Centre for Pensions, has highlighted the cost-reward benefits of private equity at a time when governments across the globe push pension funds towards greater investment in the asset class.

Although providers within New Zealand’s NZ$140bn-plus KiwiSaver voluntary retirement scheme see little direct legal risk from a recent ruling against NZ Super, they say it underlines the need for a rigorous approach to sustainable investing.

The Dutch pension market is undergoing huge reforms, but it turns out the Dutch government and the European Commission are engaged in a “pre-infringement dialogue” after the latter suspected that the new Dutch pension rules infringed European law.

The Parliamentary Contribution Pension Fund, which has 869 members made up of current or former British MPs, has a significant exposure to sub-investment grade fixed income

Sweden’s minister for financial markets explains the reforms which his government is planning on pursuing to the way the country’s pension funds invest in illiquid assets

The UK’s second pensions commission has found that savers with similar outcomes can pay fees ranging from about 0.1 per cent to more than 0.5 per cent depending on their employer

Koepel Gepensioneerden, the largest advocacy group for senior citizens in the Netherlands, says the landmark pension reforms which kicked off this year still need work to avoid disadvantaging pensioners

Mads Gosvig, the chief officer of pensions investment management at Railpen wants to see the $46bn fund’s investment in infrastructure to go up from $1.3bn to $2.7bn over the next five years

The asset manager has said the legal claim by the North East Scotland Pension Fund - which centres on investments in wind farms which lost 83 per cent - is based “entirely on hindsight”

The UK has become one of the few countries where collective defined contribution pensions exist. How does the way it is approaching CDC compare to the approach taken in the Netherlands, where these funds have been common?

The Irish pension system is entering a phase of consolidation, which is currently taking place organically. But experts predict this will not last long and the republic’s government will soon intervene to speed things up

The People’s Pension, which manages $54bn in assets, has recently made its policy on responsible investing less ambitious following an ‘in-depth review’

FTN, the Swedish fund selection agency, has removed one of its most popular global equity funds from its platform - a move which has triggered a court battle with the fund management company

Following the 2008 Icelandic banking collapse, the country’s pension system imposed a cap on foreign assets which is now gradually being lifted. We speak to Iceland’s largest open pension fund about it

Since April 1, all fund assets in the UK’s $533bn Local Government Pension Scheme should - in theory - be managed at the pool level, with the pools becoming the primary providers of investment advice. But has this happened in practice?

Colombia’s pension funds are making crypto increasingly available to investors in a bid to widen the array of options available to them, making it one of the earliest adopters in Latin America of this asset class

Sweden’s pension system is going through a process of consolidation, which for some funds like AP2 means a change in investment approach

The British government’s local government pension scheme reforms have been largely carried out with the intention of creating bigger pools of capital to grow the UK economy. But there is a tension at the heart of these plans: while the government wants to replicate Canada’s Maple 8, which operate like private equity houses to invest globally, it is also instructing the LGPS to invest locally.

Calpers chief investment officer Stephen Gilmore explains to AOX what stage the $563bn pension fund is at in its transition to the total portfolio approach and how it is handling some of the potential risks