The third iteration of the European Retirement Week will commence with a live inauguration on Monday, November 27th. This notable 2023 Retirement calendar event is set to feature prominent keynote addresses from influential figures, including Fausto Parente, the Executive Director of EIOPA; Frances Fitzgerald, Member of the European Parliament; Katarina Ivanković Knežević, the European Commission’s Director of Social Rights and Inclusion from DG EMPL; and Didier Millerot, leading the

The European Commission in August 2018 announced the names of the ten members of its recently established “High Level Group on [supplementary] pensions”. The mission of the group is “to provide policy advice to the Commission on matters related to ways of improving the provision, safety through prudential rules, inter-generational balance, adequacy and sustainability of supplementary (occupational and personal) pensions in light of the challenges in the Union and

In a long overdue move, the European Commission in June 2017 unveiled a proposal for a pan-European personal pensions product (PEPP). PEPPs are designed to complement – not replace or harmonize  – existing state-based occupational and national personal pensions throughout the European Union. The PEPP forms part of the Commission’s plan to build a Capital Markets Union (CMU), wherein the Commission believes the new pension product will help to