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As countries work to address their retirement savings challenges and help individuals build adequate resources for retirement, Global Affairs research and analyses help stakeholders understand global developments, lessons from the US system, and the powerful role funds can play in helping savers build retirement resources.

Committees & Working Groups

Global Retirement Savings Committee

The goal of the committee is to connect members from different regions (strategists, researchers, lawyers, product developers) to facilitate an exchange of knowledge about pension systems globally and create opportunities of discussion with each other, regulators, international organisations, and other stakeholders in the global retirement savings community. The committee also will work to identify and prioritise short- and long-term priorities for ICI Global in this area.

ICI Contacts

Shane Worner

Senior Director, Industry and Financial Analysis

News & Publications

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Reviving the EU Securitisation Market: It's Time to Listen to Investors

Securitisation should be one of Europe’s most powerful financial tools. The benefits are clear: liquidity creation, risk transfer, capital relief, funding diversification, tailored risk-return profiles, and deeper, more efficient markets. And yet, securitisation remains regretfully underused in the EU—constrained by regulatory choices that continue to suffocate a market with enormous untapped potential.

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Reviving the EU Securitisation Market: It's Time to Listen to Investors

Securitisation should be one of Europe’s most powerful financial tools. The benefits are clear: liquidity creation, risk transfer, capital relief, funding diversification, tailored risk-return profiles, and deeper, more efficient markets. And yet, securitisation remains regretfully underused in the EU—constrained by regulatory choices that continue to suffocate a market with enormous untapped potential.

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Reviving the EU Securitisation Market: It's Time to Listen to Investors

Europe’s Missed Opportunity Securitisation should be one of Europe’s most powerful financial tools. The benefits are clear: liquidity creation, risk transfer, capital relief, funding diversification, tailored risk-return profiles, and deeper, more efficient markets. And yet, securitisation remains regretfully underused in the EU—constrained by regulatory choices that continue to suffocate a market with enormous untapped potential. While other global markets such as the US race ahead, the EU is bogged down by well-meaning but ill-fitting rules that ignore the needs of the very people expected...

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Additional Resources

  • The US Retirement System

View all ICI research on the Lessons from the US Retirement System and translations in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese.

  • The Japanese Retirement System

According to a 2013 economic survey by the OECD, Japan has the oldest population in the world. Faced with challenging economic conditions and an aging population, the Japanese government initiated a series of reforms—and continues to explore additional initiatives—to address the country’s long-term savings challenges.

The Japanese Retirement System (pdf)