Pension Workshop 'Aging Insured'

The aging of the population results in higher risks in the field of income and health care costs. Elderly people are becoming richer and healthier than in the past, but they are also facing more old age risks in the future. Social and financial innovation is necessary to better protect people against these risks and at the same time to stimulate the maintenance of human capital. The challenge for the insurance sector is to formulate an ambitious policy that is focused on offering attractive insurance products against these risks.

Insurers can also play an important role in the required innovation by helping employers and employees to protect human talent. This calls for the integration of health care insurance, social security, retirement provision and life-course saving schemes.

Leading economists and prominent speakers from the insurance sector and politics will discuss this theme in the afternoon session on Thursday January 31, 2008 during a workshop jointly organized by Netspar and the Dutch Association of Insurers. This afternoon session will be in Dutch; translation is provided. The morning session will be in English and deals with two current themes in the Dutch pension and insurance sector.

Keynote speakers are Piet-Hein Donner (Minister of Social Affairs and Employment), Ton Heerts (Member of Parlement of the Dutch labour party), Aart Jan de Geus (OECD), and Coen Teulings (CPB).

You can find the program of all days on the left side. If you would like to attend one or more days of this workshop, please send an email to Sylvia van Drogenbroek.