Canadian pension funds have been hitting the news aplenty with their recent growth in size and strength. They have emerged from the 2008/09 economic crisis as some of the largest players on the global stage, second in size only to sovereign wealth funds. ...

PKO BP Bankowy Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne (PKO BP Bankowy PTE)  runs the pension fund PKO BP Bankowy OFE within the PKO Bank Polski Capital Group. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of PKO Bank Polski, which is one of the most seasoned participants o...

World Finance speaks with Dubravko Stima, President of the PBZ Croatia osiguranje management board What defines PBZ Croatia osiguranje’s pension fund? PBZ Croatia osiguranje d.d. was founded in 2001 as a compulsory pension fund management company...

In 1981, Chile created its privatised compulsory individual pension system. In that same year, AFP Habitat initiated operations with the goal of achieving the best investment returns on the pension contributions accumulated by its clients during their act...

The Republic of Kazakhstan is a trans-continental nation, lying across Central Asia and Eastern Europe, but with the vast majority of its territory located in the Central Asian region. With a landmass of more than 2.5 million sq. km, it is the ninth large...

Skandia Pensiones y Cesantías in Colombia is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Old Mutual Group, providing retirement solutions through mandatory and complementary retirement and long-term investment funds. In Colombia, Skandia has over 15 years of experi...

Peru’s newly elected government, under Ollanta Humala, has taken steps to improve its pension model. Within this restructuring, Prima AFP is at the forefront of industry developments. Peru’s leading private sector pension fund provider welcomes its go...

During the crisis, many international companies halted or drastically reduced their pension schemes for employees. Faced with mounting losses, some corporations that were offering lucrative plans for their employees cut benefits substantially, leaving the...

Not all UK based companies provide their employees with a pension scheme at the moment and not all employees have access to such a fund join. Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, it is a fact that as recently as 2009 only 50 percent of UK employees belonged to ...

For those unfamiliar with the term, a SIPP or Self Invested Personal Pension is, in essence, a pension scheme holding the same tax advantages as other pension schemes, but that provides a higher level of control over how savings are invested. The tax bene...