Analysis

With the growth in assets under management, Australian super funds have begun a drive to boost their in-house management teams. Rachel Alembakis reports

Recent market events have had a big impact on Irish equities and this loss has translated to the domestically biased Irish pension funds themselves. Elizabeth Pfeuti reports from Dublin

Elizabeth Pfeuti talks to Orlaigh Quinn about the recent government green paper and the steps Ireland is taking towards pension reform

New Zealand's KiwiSaver scheme has been a victim of its own success, with the flood of new entrants serving to highlight several teething problems. Rachel Alembakis reports

The smooth running of the Swiss pension industry has been interrupted by the knock-on impact of the sub-prime crisis and lingering debates over administrative consolidation and minimum interest credit payments. Andrew Sheen travels to Geneva and Zurich...

Santiago Montenegro and çlvaro Pedraza give an overview of the Colombian pension system

In the fastchanging Dutch pensions environment, both pension funds and asset managers are having to rethink their game in order to keep their place in the industry. Keren Holland reports

This year will see the fifteenth anniversary of Peru's Private Pension System, which was based on the Chilean model. Fernando Muñoz-Nájar looks at how the system has taken root in the Andean country

Heather Dale talks to Mike O'Brien, the UK's Minister of State for Pension Reform

The importance of the role of trustees in UK defined benefit (DB) pension funds was highlighted in 2007: the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF) in particular encouraged trustees to engage with companies over merger and acquisition activity.