This year’s Annual ESPAnet Conference in Rotterdam is sponsored by Netspar. On September 2, from 15.00 until 16.15, Netspar organizes a plenary panel titled ‘The future of pensions in Europe’. Netspar researcher Romke van der Veen (EUR) will chair this session; Casper van Ewijk (General Director Netspar) and Bernhard Ebbinghaus (University of Mannheim) are panel members; speakers are Kees Goudswaard (Leiden University) and Ellen Immergut…

The Netspar 2015 Annual Report is now available on our website. In addition to the financial report, it contains reviews by the Supervisory Board and the Netspar Board of Directors. We would like to express our gratitude to everyone who helped Netspar make a valuable contribution to a well-informed pension debate.

In this month´s newsletter: read more about our new website, call for papers Pension Day and the successful conference ‘End Game Toward a New Pension System’ that took place on June 16. Also you can download the latest papers en see events that take place the coming months.

At the request of the Dutch State Secretary of Social Affairs, Lans Bovenberg, Theo Nijman, and Bas Werker have outlined the advantages and disadvantages of various implementations of the assumed interest rate for the new Improved Defined Contribution Scheme Act (wet Verbeterde Premieregeling).

The desired freedom of choice in pensions is much smaller than polls suggest. How much freedom of choice workers should get, is important in the ongoing debate about the development of the Dutch pension system.

The book ‘Pensioen 2020’ (in Dutch) is being released on April 22. The book presents a collection of legal and economic essays on the trends in retirement financing.

The Foundation Board has appointed Hans Rademaker (CIO for Robeco) to the Supervisory Board of the Netspar Foundation with effect from March 1. His first term on the board will end on February 28, 2019. Robeco will appoint a successor to take Hans’s place on the Foundation Board.

The Netspar Thesis Awards were presented in Leiden during the International Pension Workshop. Netspar awards prizes for outstanding theses related to the Netspar research program.

Aandacht voor persoonlijke financiële planning over de levensloop en een betere afstemming in regelgeving van de domeinen wonen, zorg en pensioen kan belangrijke welvaartswinst opleveren. Door de toenemende diversiteit tussen huishoudens en de verschuiving van risico’s en verantwoordelijkheden naar het individu, wordt afstemming tussen pensioen, wonen en zorg steeds belangrijker. Gebrekkige afstemming tussen de belangrijke onderdelen van de financiële planning over de levensloop leidt…

Netspar founder Lans Bovenberg has been appointed holder of the new F.J.D. Goldschmeding Chair at Tilburg University. His purview is “Innovation in Economics Teaching.” Bovenberg will remain affiliated with Netspar. Casper van Ewijk, General Director of Netspar, was appointed to the Gak-endowed chair in “Funded Pension Systems” at Tilburg University. He succeeds Lans Bovenberg, who held the chair from June 2013 until now. This…