The 4th Contractual Savings Conference: Supervisory and Regulatory Issues In Private Pensions and Life Insurance

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World Bank Financial and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency - Insurance and Pensions - The Financial Markets for Social Safety Nets group supports the development of social safety nets using market-based instruments for pensions, insurance systems, and low-income housing. This work involves increasing household and small business access to key non-bank financial markets.

Pensions-Policy.org - The pensions website of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, which seeks to help countries weigh different options in considering pension reforms.

Pension Reform Primer by Robert Palacios and Edward Whitehouse
The World Bank Pension Reform Primer aims to provide a comprehensive toolkit for policy makers on designing and implementing pension reform. It is based on continuously updated information from countries that have introduced reforms emphasising the role of privately-managed individual retirement accounts. Their experience offers a number of useful lessons for policy makers elsewhere.

The Journal of Pension Economics and Finance - The first academic journal of pension economics and finance published by Cambridge University Press starting in 2002. This journal, like the International Pensions Research Network, is also associated with the International Network of Pension Regulators and Supervisors.

World Bank Group Pensions Online - Research and latest updates on pensions

IOPS - The International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS) is an independent international body representing those involved in the supervision of private pension arrangements. The organisation currently has around 60 members and observers representing approximately 50 countries and territories worldwide.

International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) - Established in 1994, the IAIS represents insurance regulators and supervisors of some 180 jurisdictions in more than 130 countries, constituting 97% of the world's insurance premiums. It also has more than 100 observers.  

International Actuarial Association (IAA) - Founded in 1895, IAA is the worldwide association regrouping local professional actuarial associations and their individual actuaries. The IAA exists to encourage the development of a global profession, acknowledged as technically competent and professionally reliable, which will ensure that the public interest is served.