Pension assets have grown significantly over the past two decades, supported by policy initiatives aimed at diversifying retirement financing sources to create more resilient pension systems and improving retirement outcomes for individuals. Over half of the working-age population participates in asset-backed pension systems in most OECD countries. Pension funds are the largest investors in global capital markets, including public equity and debt markets as well as emerging private capital markets, and owned nearly one-fifth of global public equity market capitalisation at year-end 2023.
Given their growing economic and financial importance, it is critical to improve the design of asset-backed pension systems, promote their inclusiveness and understand the role of equity investments in their growth and performance.
The OECD will address these and other related issues during a high-level event on Monday 2 December, starting at 14:00 CET / 13:00 GMT.
The event will include a presentation and discussion of the OECD Pensions Outlook 2024 as well as the Pension Markets in Focus 2024, with the latest data and trends on pension assets.
OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann will open the event, which will be livestreamed to the public here.
Further information on the OECD’s work on pension systems is available here.
Journalists can request advance copies of Pensions Outlook 2024 and Pension Markets in Focus 2024, thereby undertaking to respect the OECD’s embargo procedures by emailing embargo@oecd.org.
For further information or to arrange interviews, journalists should contact the OECD Media Office (+33 1 45 24 97 00).
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