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Knowledge Topics

Are you looking to deepen your knowledge of pensions and aging? Each knowledge Topic contains an overview of relevant publications.

Pension Design

The Future Pensions Act offers options for solidarity-based and flexible contribution schemes. What are these and what about guarantees and managing inflation risk?

Sustainable Investing and Preferences

Sustainability considerations play an important role in pension investments. How does more focus on sustainability relate to returns, participants’ preferences, measurement methods and considerations?

Governance

Governance involves, among other things, the division of roles between social partners and pension providers. Is there a cause for revision? And what about diversity?

Decision Support

Pension participants have quite a few choices, but often limited oversight of the implications. How can innovation and duty of care improve decision support?

Working Longer

Both the average life expectancy of Dutch people and the average retirement age are rising. Are people able and willing to work longer? And how do employers view working longer?

Vulnerable Groups and Inequality

Pension inequality affects vulnerable groups. What are the causes, facts, and policy options and considerations for reducing differences in retirement income?

Measuring Risk Attitudes

Participants’ risk preferences and risk capacity help design pension contracts and supervision. What are the relevant aspects and the underlying academic literature?

Pension Communication

The transition to more explicitly uncertain pension benefits requires transparent communication. What are the challenges and possible alternative approaches to pension communication?

Transition

The transition to the Future Pensions Act raises legal and economic questions, for instance regarding compensation for the switch to a flat contribution rate.

Retirement-savings Gap and the Self-employed

Many employees and self-employed workers build up no or hardly any supplementary pension. What are the facts and policy options for addressing this retirement-savings gap?