Archive Features

Austria: A new horizon

Austria’s strong state pension system is facing growing pressure from demographic change and high public spending. As policymakers seek to strengthen sustainability, attention is turning to occupational pensions – but whether voluntary provision can deliver the scale needed remains uncertain. Paige Perrin reports

Autumn 2026

Savings under scrutiny

From France and Hungary to Estonia and Slovenia, a series of recent Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Economic Surveys has placed pension reform firmly on the agenda. Callum Conway rounds up the organisation’s latest country recommendations and the very different retirement challenges facing policymakers across Europe

Autumn 2026

Who shares wins

Collective sharing of risks or rewards form part of almost every national pensions system. As the UK launches a new type of collective defined contribution scheme, David Adams asks what policymakers, the pensions industry and employers can learn from the different ways collective elements are used in pension systems across Europe

Autumn 2026

Built to last

Swiss Pension Fund Association director, Lukas Müller-Brunner, sits down with Paige Perrin to speak about the strengths of Switzerland’s multi-pillar pension system, the challenges the Swiss pension industry is facing, and the importance of preserving employer involvement and improving efficiency without simply relying on further consolidation of pension funds

Autumn 2026

Austria’s pension reform: cautious steps towards a stronger second pillar

Austria’s planned occupational pension reform is welcome for a country still heavily reliant on its public pay-as-you go system. Yet the measures fall short of the structural change needed. Valida Vorsorge Management member of the executive board, Philipp Mayer, explores

Autumn 2026

Ask the industry

Imagine you have €1 billion (or equivalent value in local currency) of new capital to invest today for your pension fund/pension fund client. How would you allocate it, what opportunities would you avoid, and what factors would most influence your decisions?

Autumn 2026

Over the line

After years of delays, Ireland’s auto-enrolment system has finally crossed the try line. But while MyFutureFund has been welcomed as a landmark reform, concerns remain over aspects of its implementation and the wider changes reshaping the pensions landscape. David Adams reports

Summer 26

The resilience shield

European pension funds are redefining resilience as geopolitical instability, climate risk and digital dependence reshape the landscape. Beyond funding and investment risk, regulators are now focused on operational vulnerabilities – from cyber threats to reliance on non‑European IT providers – raising new questions about the role of pensions as critical financial infrastructure. Ellie Carric reports

Summer 26

Joining forces

Paige Perrin explores the current trend of consolidation in the Icelandic pension sector and the wider impacts of a more concentrated market structure on competition, ownership and financial stability

Summer 26

The dollar dilemma

Currency hedging is back in focus as doubts emerge over the dollar’s traditional role as a safe haven. Against a backdrop of heightened volatility, European pension funds are reviewing their exposure to foreign exchange risk and the opportunities hedging can offer. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports

Summer 26

The cost compass

The continent’s pension sector is rethinking fees and costs as regulators, providers and policymakers shift the debate from price alone in search for value for money, transparency and better longterm outcomes for savers. Pete Carvill reports

Summer 26

Sweden’s pension balancing act

Skandia head of public and regulatory affairs, Mattias Munter, speaks to Callum Conway about the strengths of Sweden’s multi-pillar pension system, the lessons from recent governance controversies, and why adequacy, trust and private savings reform will shape the sector’s future

Summer 26

Ask the industry

With artificial intelligence (AI)-related pension complaints appearing in Belgian
Pensions Ombudsman cases for the first time, is the wider European pensions industry prepared for a surge in saver-led decisions driven by AI? And what responsibility does the industry have to intervene?

Summer 26

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