Skip to content

Master’s Education

Are you a university student fascinated by pensions and retirement? Netspar offers a course in all of the master’s programs at Tilburg School of Economics & Management at Tilburg University.

The Economics and Finance of Pensions Reasons to Choose this Course Want to know more?

The Netherlands has one of the best pension systems in the world, with over €1.5 trillion in invested assets. Yet, keeping pensions affordable for future generations represents a gargantuan task, one that will take a lot of brainpower.

How can those assets be invested smartly and responsibly? How do we build pension and retirement awareness among people? How might big data be used to guide people’s decision-making? And how do you ensure that people don’t save too little, or, in fact, too much, over the course of their lives?

Those are the sorts of questions that are dealt with in a course designed by Netspar: The Economics and Finance of Pensions. The course offers you not only academic specialization, but also the possibility of participating in expert meetings.

This course integrates particularly well with the following master’s programs:

The Netspar course offers excellent opportunities to enhance and expand your knowledge. And that knowledge is needed for safeguarding the financial security of retirement in the Netherlands and Europe − and keeping it affordable.

In short, you get:

  • Dedicated instructors with practical knowledge about the current pension debate
  • Access to a valuable network of contacts in the pension, retirement, and insurance industry, including interactive meetings with experts or Netspar partners
  • Excellent job prospects

Want to know more? Please contact policy advisor Silvie van Halder at +31-(0)13-466 37 93 or [email protected].