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6th Global Pension and Savings Conference
April 2-3, 2014Washington, DC
The conference will focus on lessons learned over the past 20 years in analyzing and implementing pension policies. It will use shared global experiences to set out a positive forward-looking agenda for the tools, techniques, and policies to improve pension outcomes in the coming decades.

Jointly hosted by the Financial & Private Sector Development and Human Development Networks, the conference (formerly known as the Contractual Savings Conference), will focus on lessons learnt over the past 20 years in analyzing and implementing pension policies. It will use shared global experiences to set out a positive forward-looking agenda for the tools, techniques, and policies to improve pension outcomes in the coming decades.

The agenda will combine the insights of country, regional and global experts from government, regulators and supervisors, academics and pension industry leaders; and it will provide a key input and platform for how good policy and delivery of public and private pensions can help to eradicate poverty and boost shared prosperity sustainably.

As in previous years, the conference attracts senior policy makers, regulators and supervisors who are involved with pension funds systems, both in the retirement and payout phase; pension fund managers and managers from life insurance companies; academics; officials from international financial organizations; pension fund managers associations; as well as staff from the World Bank Group, and the International Monetary Fund.

Event proceedings can be found here. 

 

The 6th Global Pension and Savings Conference will be held at the World Bank Group Headquarters in Washington DC on April 2-3, 2014.

A separate half-day Seminar on Regulation, Supervision and Strategy will be held on Friday, April 4 and is open to interested conference participants (registration is required due to limited seating availability).

To register, please click the applicable link below. The Registration Deadline is March 14, 2014.

Non-World Bank Group Staff Registration World Bank Group Staff Registration

 

Conference Fee:

The fee for participation is US$1,000 per person. This fee applies to participation in all sessions, course materials, breakfast, lunch, reception and refreshment breaks. The fee does not include travel or accommodation expenses, which should be planned by each participant. To secure your place at this conference, kindly follow the relevant payment instructions below after registering to attend the conference.

Wire Transfer:
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**All credit card information will be kept strictly confidential.

   

Pension Publications

» Reversal and Reduction, Resolution and Reform: Lessons from the Financial Crisis in Europe and Central Asia to Improve Outcomes from Mandatory Private Pensions, by Will Price and Heinz P. Rudolph, May 2013

» The Private Pension Team Strategy, Financial and Private Sector Development Network's Pensions Team, October 2013

» Upgrading Investment Regulations in Second Pillar Pension Systems: A Proposal for Colombia (PDF Document), by Pablo Castañeda and Heinz P. Rudolph, August 2011

» Development Banks: Role and Mechanisms to Increase Their Efficiency, by Eva Gutierrez, Heinz P. Rudolphj, Theodore Homa and Enrique Blanco Beneit, July 2011

» Book: Annuities and Other Retirement Products: Designing the Payout Phase, by Roberto Rocha, Dimitri Vittas and Heinz P. Rudolph, February 2011

» Challenges of the Mandatory Funded Pension System in the Russian Federation (PDF Document), by Heinz P. Rudolph and Peter Holtzer, December 2010

» A Summary and Update of Developing Annuities Markets: The Experience of Chile (PDF Document), by Roberto Rocha and Heinz P. Rudolph, June 2010

» The Payout Phase of Pension Systems: A Comparison of Five Countries (PDF Document), by Roberto Rocha, Dimitri Vittas and Heinz P. Rudolph, April 2010

» Designing the Payout Phase of Funded Pension Pillars in Central and Eastern European Countries (PDF Document), by Dimitri Vittas, Heinz Rudolph and John Pollner, April 2010

» Book: Evaluating the Financial Performance of Pension Funds, by by Richard Hinz, Rudolph Heinz P., Pablo Antolin, Juan Yermo, January 2010

» Pensions in Crisis: Europe and Central Asia Regional Policy Note (PDF Document), by Human Development Sector Unit, November 2009

» Enabling Conditions for Second Pillars of Pension Systems, by Heinz Rudolph and Roberto Rocha, April 2009

» Additional publications are available at https://www.worldbank.org/pensions

 

For more information, please contact the Capital Markets Practice

Download the Final Agenda and Speaker Biographies

* Click on the speaker names below to access presentations

Conference Sessions - Wednesday, April 2

Session 1: Setting the Scene: 20 years of Global Pension Policy

  • Averting the Old Age Crisis Reflections 20 year later: Estelle James, SUNY, Stony Brook and former Lead Economist, World Bank
  • Robert Palacios, World Bank Group

Session 2: The Sustainability and Adequacy Tradeoff as Countries Age

  • Global Trends and reforms: The OECD Perspective: Ambrogio Rinaldi, COVIP, Italy and OECD Working Party on Private Pensions
  • Developments, Difficult choices and Diversifying Systems in Europe and Central Asia: Anita Schwarz, World Bank Group
  • The challenge of rapid aging in Asia: Donghyun Park, Asian Development Bank
  • The lesson from Poland: Agnieszka Chlon-Dominczak, Warsaw School of Economics

Session 3: Challenges and Innovations in Expanding Pensions Coverage

  • The role of incentives and behavioral economics in expanding coverage: Brigitte Madrian, Harvard University
  • Towards Universal Coverage in Latin America through Better Pensions and Better Jobs: Mariano Bosch, Inter-American Development Bank
  • Pensions in India: Past, present and future: Guatam Bhardwaj, Invest India Micro Pension Services, India (Video on MicroPension-VISA Lab)
  • Auto-enrolment from concept to over 2 million more pension savers: Charles Counsell, The Pensions Regulator, UK

Session 4: Global and Regional Reflections: Roundtable

  • Edward Odundo, CEO, Retirement Benefits Authority, Kenya and President IOPS
  • Benedict Clements, Division Chief, IMF
  • Carlos Ramirez, President of CONSAR, Mexico
  • Uluc Icoz, Head of Private Pensions, Turkish Treasury
  • Junichi Sakamoto, Chief Adviser, Nomura Research Institute
  • Edward Whitehouse, Director, Axia Economics

Luncheon Remarks: "The Greek Public Pension System. Who sows, who reaps? Greek Public Pension System from the baby boom, to the fiscal boom, to the crisis" - George Symeonidis, Hellenic Actuarial Authority, Greece


Conference Sessions - Thursday, April 3

Session 5: Delivering Better Costs and Investment

  • What accurate benchmarking tells us about cost and investment performance: Mike Heale, CEM Benchmarking
  • Market Structure, Scale, Expertise and Governance as drivers of improved costs and investments: Will Price, World Bank Group
  • Sweden: Costs, investments and continuous improvement: Annika Sunden, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
  • The impact of auctions in Peru and Chile: Michel Canta, Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and Private Pension Fund Administrators, Peru

Session 6: Investment: Global Trends to Practical Infrastructure Projects

  • The investment industry globally after the financial crisis: John Rogers, CFA Institute
  • Institutional Investors and Infrastructure in Emerging Markets: Fiona Stewart, World Bank Group
  • Building infrastructure investment capability: Kirstine Damkjaer, Global Infrastructure Fund, IFC
  • Mobilizing Capital Markets for Infrastructure – The Colombian experience: Clemente del Valle, Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional, Colombia

Session 7: The Payout Phase: Products, Providers and Structures

  • The size and nature of the Retirement Income Challenge: Edward Whitehouse, AXIA Economics
  • Linking accumulation to the payout goal to address mortality and investment risk: Craig Thorburn, World Bank Group
  • Securing Lifelong Retirement Income: Annika Sunden, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
  • Delivering annuities in Developing and Developed Markets: the role of private providers: Carmen Hoyo, BBVA

Session 8: Bringing it all together: Lessons, Solutions and Outcomes

Luncheon Remarks: "The Economics and Politics of Global Aging" - Stephen Goss, US Social Security Administration

Roundtable on Regulation and Supervision - Friday, April 4

Roundtable Session 1: Strategies, Outcomes and Risk Based Supervision

  • Initial Presentation by: Michael Hafeman, Chair Toronto Center Insurance and Pension Program

Roundtable Session 2: Developing Investment Governance and Benchmark strategies

Roundtable Session 3: Delivering recordkeeping, IDs, MI and payment infrastructure

April 2-3, 2014
  • Location: World Bank, Washington, DC
  • A separate half-day seminar on Regulation Supervision and Strategy : April 4, 2014
  • CONTACT: World Bank Capital Markets Practice 
  • capmktspractice@worldbank.org
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