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Afghanistan Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled (MoLSAMD) Ministry of Finance Albania Instituti i Sigurimeve Shoqërore (Social Insurance Institute) Ministry of Finance Algeria National Retirement Fund National Social Security Fund for Nonwage Earners Andorra National Social Security Found Angola Ministry of Finance Argentina Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social Armenia Armenia Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Aruba Social Security Bank Australia Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) Centrelink ComSuper (Administers superannuation for members of the Australian public service, participating employers, and members of the Australian defence force) Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Austria Österreichischen Sozialversicherung (Main Association of Austrian Social Insurance Agencies) Pension Insurance Institution Azerbaijan State Social Protection Fund Bahamas, The The Government of the Bahamas Bahrain General Organization for Social Insurance Bangladesh Ministry of Social Welfare Barbados National Insurance Scheme Belarus Social Security Fund Belgium Federale Overheidsdienst Sociale Zekerheid (Federal Public Service Social Security) Rijksdienst voor Pensioenen (National Pension Office) Rijksdienst voor Sociale Zekerheid (National Office of Social Security) Belize Belize Social Security Board Bermuda Department of Social Insurance Bhutan National Pension & Provident Fund Botswana Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs Brazil Ministério da Previdência Social Brunei Ministry of Health Department of Labor Bulgaria Financial Supervision Commission National Social Security Institute Burkina Faso Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale Cambodia The National Institute of Statistics Canada Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) for Federal Pension Plans Régie des rentes du Québec (Quebec Pension Board) Cameroon National Social Insurance Fund Cape Verde National Social Insurance Institute Chile Superintendencia de Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (Superintendency of Pension Fund Management Companies) China Ministry of Labour and Social Security Colombia Instituto de Seguros Sociales Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia Costa Rica Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (Costa Rican Social Security Fund) Superintendencia de Pensiones (SUPEN) Côte d'Ivoire Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance Sociale Croatia Hrvatski Zavod Za Mirovinsko Osiguranje (Pension Insurance Fund) Czech Republic Ceská Správa Sociálního Zabezpecení (Social Security Administration) Ministerstvo Práce A Sociálních Vecí (Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs) Denmark Arbejdsmarkedets Tillaegspension (Labor Market Supplementary Pension Scheme) Finanstilsynet (Financial Supervisory Authority) Dominica Dominica Social Security Dominican Republic Consejo Nacional de Seguridad Social Direccion de Informacion y Defensa de los Afiliados Superintendencia de Pensiones de la Republica Dominicana (SIPEN) Ecuador Banco Central del Ecuador Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social El Salvador Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social Estonia Sotsiaalministeerium (Ministry of Social Affairs) Finland Finnish Centre for Pensions Kansaneläkelaitos-Folkpensionsanstalten (Social Insurance Institution) Fiji National Provident Fund France Caisse des Français de l'Étranger (CFE) (Fund for French Citizens Abroad) Caisse National d'assurance Viellesse (La Cnav) (National Old-Age Pension Insurance Fund) Portail de la Sécurité Sociale Gambia Social Security and Housing Finance Corporation Georgia Ministry of Labor, Health, and Social Affairs Germany Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BAFin) Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie) Old Age Pension Insurance (Deutsche Rentenversicherung) Ghana Ministry of Finance & Economic Planning Greece General Secretariat of Social Security Social Insurance Institute (Idryma Koinonikon Asfaliseon (IKA)) Social Security Organization for the Self-Employed Grenada National Insurance Scheme Guatemala Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social (IGSS) Ministerio de Trabajo y Previsión Social Guyana Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security National Insurance Scheme Honduras Instituto de Seguridad Social Hong Kong Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority MPFEXPRESS.COM Social Welfare Department Hungary Országos Nyugdíjbiztosítási Fõigazgatóság (Central Administration of National Pension Insurance) Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) Iceland State Social Security Institute India Employees' Provident Fund Organisation Ministry of Labour Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Indonesia Jamsostek (Employees Social Security System) Iran Social Security Organization Ministry of Welfare and Social Security Ireland Department of Social Protection Pensions Board Israel Ministry of Finance - Capital Markets, Insurance & Savings Division National Insurance Institute Italy Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS) Instituto Nazionale di Previdenza per i Dipendenti dell'Amministrazione Pubblica (National Institute of Social Security for Civil Servants) Pension Funds Supervision Commission (COVIP) for Occupational and Personal Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare National Institute of Population and Social Security Research Jordan Social Security Corporation Kazakhstan Ministry of Labour and Social Protection State Fund of Social Insurance Kenya Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development Retirement Benefits Authority Korea, South National Pension Service Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Family Affairs Kuwait Public Institution for Social Security Kyrgyz Republic Ministry of Labour and Social Protection Laos Social Security Organization Latvia Ministry of Welfare State Social Insurance Agency Lebanon National Social Security Fund Lesotho Ministry of Labour Liechtenstein AHV IV FAK Institutes Liberia National Social Security & Welfare Corperation Libya Social Security Fund Investments Lithuania Ministry of Social Security and Labour State Social Insurance Fund Board Luxembourg Ministère de la Sécurité Sociale Social Security Organizations Macao Social Security Fund Macedonia Agency for Supervision of Fully Funded Pension Insurance (MAPAS) Ministry of Labour and Social Policy Malaysia Ministry of Human Resources Employees Provident Fund Maldives Ministry of Health Marshall Islands Social Security Administration Mauritius National Pensions Board Mexico Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) (Mexican Social Security Institute) Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado (ISSSTE) (Social Security Institute for Civil Servants) Comision Nacional del Sistema de Ahorro para el Retiro Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social Micronesia Social Security Administration Myanmar Ministry of Labour Moldova Ministry of Social Protection, Family, and Children National Office of Social Insurance Monaco Caisses Sociales de Monaco Mongolia State Social Insurance General Office Morocco Caisse Marocaine des Retraites (Moroccan Retirement Fund) Caisse Interprofessionnelle Marocaine de Retraites Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale (National Social Security Fund) Nepal Ministry of Local Development Employee's Provident Fund Netherlands Nederlandsche Bank (Pensions and Insurance Supervisory Authority) Sociale Verzekeringsbank (Social Insurance Bank) Uitvoering Werknemersverzekeringen (Social Security Agency) Netherlands Antilles Algemeen Pensioenfonds Nederlandse Antillen New Zealand Government Policy on Pre-Funding New Zealand Superannuation Ministry of Social Development - Work and Income Ministry of Social Development New Zealand Superannuation Fund Retirement Commission Nicaragua Instituto Nicaragüense de Seguridad Social (Nicaraguan Social Security Institute) Nigeria National Pension Commission Trustfund Pensions Plc Norway Trygdeetaten Informasjonssider (Social Security Agency Information Pages) Oman Public Authority for Social Insurance Pakistan Employee's Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) Panama Caja de Seguro Social (Social Security Fund) Palau Palau Social Security System Papua New Guinea Bank of Papua New Guinea Paraguay Instituto de Previsión Social Peru Oficina de Normalización Previsional Superintendencia de Banca y Seguros Philippines Philippine Social Security System Poland Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) Portugal Caixa Geral de Aposentacoes (CGA) (Civil Servants Pensions Institution) Direcção-Geral dos Regimes da Segurança Social Ministerul Muncii, Solidaritatii Sociale si Familiei Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation Romania Ministry of Labor, Family, and Equal Opportunities National Pension and Social Insurance Fund Russia Pension Fund of the Russian Federation Rwanda Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning Samoa National Provident Fund Saudi Arabia General Organization for Social Insurance Senegal L'institution de Prévoyance Retraite du Sénégal (IPRES) Seychelles Seychelles Pension Fund Serbia and Montenegro Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy Singapore Central Provident Fund Slovak Republic Ministerstvo Práce, Socialnych Vecí a Rodiny (Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family) Sociálna Poistovna (Social Insurance Agency) Slovenia Zavod Za Pokojninsko In Invalidsko Zavarovanje Slovenije South Africa Department of Social Development Solomon Islands National Provident Fund Board Spain Ministerio de Administraciones Publicas (Ministry of Public Administrations) Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales (Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs) Mutualidad General de Funcionarios Civiles del Estado (Social Security for Civil Servants) Sri Lanka Employees' Provident Fund St. Kitts and Nevis Social Security Board St. Lucia National Insurance Corporation St. Vincent and the Grenadines National Insurance Services Swaziland National Provident Fund Ministry of Finance Sweden Finansinspektionen (Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority) Försäkringskassan (National Social Insurance Administration) Switzerland Assurance-vieillesse et survivants (AVS) et Assurance-invalidité (AI) (Alters-und Hinterlassenenversicherung (AHV) und Invalidenversicherung (IV), Assicurazione-vecchiaia e superstiti (AVS) e Assicurazione invalidità (AI) Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) L’Office fédéral des assurances sociales (Federal Social Insurance Office) Taiwan Labor Insurance Department of the Council of Labor Affairs Social Affairs Department of the Ministry of the Interior Bureau of Labor Insurance Tanzania Ministry of Labour, Youth & Sports Development National Social Security Fund PPF Pensions Fund Thailand Government Pension Fund Ministry of Labor Trinidad & Tobago National Insurance Board Tunisia Ministère des Affaires Sociales, de la Solidarité et des Tunisiens à l'étranger National Pension and Providence Fund Turkey T.C. Çalisma ve Sosyal Güvenlik Bakanligi (Ministry of Labour and Social Security) Uganda National Social Security Fund Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development Bank of Uganda Ukraine Ministry of Labour and Social Policy United Kingdom Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland HM Revenue & Customs - National Insurance Contributions Local Government Pension Division Morris Review of the Actuarial Profession Pensions Regulator United States Social Security Administration SEC Cost Calculator (for Calculation of US Mutual Funds Cost) Thrift Savings Plan Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Uruguay Banco de Previsión Social (Social Insurance Bank) Servicio de Retiros y Pensiones de las Fuerzas Armadas (Armed Forces Retirements & Pensions Service) Ministry of Labor and Social Security Central Bank of Uruguay Vanuatu Provident Fund Board Venezuela Instituto Venezolano de los Seguros Sociales (Social Security Institute) Vietnam Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs West Bank and Gaza Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Yemen Private Pension Fund Zimbabwe National Social Security Authority Non-Governmental / Academic Asociacion de Instituciones de Inversiones Colectivas y Fondos de Pensiones, Spain Asociacion Gremial de Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones, Chile Asociación Internacional de Organismos de Supervisión de Fondos de Pensiones Cato Institute - Project on Social Security Choice Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies, Italy Centro Interamericano de Estudios de Seguridad Social (CIESS) (Inter-American Center for Social Security Studies) Conferencia Interamericana de Seguridad Social (CISS) (Interamerican Conference on Social Security) Employee Benefit Research Institute, U.S. European Federation for Retirement Provision Federacion Internacional de Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (FIAP) (International Federation of Pension Fund Administrators) Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening (FIRST) Initiative Global Action on Aging HelpAge International ID21 Society & Economy Research Institute of Retirement Funds of South Africa Institute of Pension Research, Japan Inter-American Development Bank International Association for the Study of the Insurance Economics, Switzerland International Center for Pension Research, Mexico International Labour Organization (ILO) - Social Security Policy & Development Branch - STEP Programme International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis - Social Security Reform Project International Pension Research Network International Social Security Association (ISSA) Invest India Economic Foundation Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies National Academy of Social Insurance Netspar (Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement) Organisation for Co-operation and Development (OECD) - Insurance and Pensions OECD Working Paper Series on Insurance and Private Pensions Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford Pensions & Investments Online - International Newspaper of Money Management Pension Reforms - Retirement Policy & Research Centre, University of Auckland Pension Research Council, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Pension Watch Rotman International Centre for Pension Management, University of Toronto UNRISD - Ageing, Development and Social Protection World Bank - Administrative & Civil Service Reform World Bank - Conference on Public Pension Fund Management, Sept. 2001 World Bank - Financial Sector World Bank Institute - Pension Reforms World Health Organization - Ageing and Life Course, Dept. of Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

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