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Most pension investors struggled last year, particularly in the last quarter of the year. The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (SPU) suffered the most from the slump in stock prices, losing as much as 6 per cent of its assets. Yet the return of nearly all of the actors included in the comparison improved over …

What is the current status of the transnational cooperation between European social security institutions? Where are we heading according to European experts? Register this week and join the MoveS seminar: ”Sincere cooperation – from principle to practice” in Helsinki, Finland on 13 September 2019.  

Most workers posted from Finland are posted to Sweden. In 2018, nearly four out of five certificates for posted workers were granted to men. When viewed by groups of people, only officials and grant recipients included more women (58%) than men.

Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, has been selected as the seat of the new European Labour Authority (ELA), which starts its operations in October 2019.

What is the status of cross-border cooperation between European social security institutions today? Where are we heading from the point of view of European experts? These topics will be discussed at the MoveS seminar arranged in Helsinki, Finland, on 13 September.

The share of under-45-year-olds returning to work after rehabilitation grew by five percentage points during the three follow-up years. Seven out of ten were in working life three years after their rehabilitation ended, statistics of the Finnish Centre for Pensions shows.

The Finnish Centre for Pensions now publishes parallel publications (open access) of its research articles. This way, as many as possible can access our research results.

The pension assets of the earnings-related pension scheme decreased in 2018 by 6.1 billion euros, amounting to 196 billion euros at year-end. The last time the pension assets decreased was in 2011, as a result of the euro crisis. Examine the money flows with the visualisation of the earnings-related pension money flows.

Each year, the Finnish Centre for Pensions grants a Pro Gradu Award to a distinguished Master’s thesis. This year, the award was granted to a thesis from the Tampere University on rehabilitation within the earnings-related pension system. The author of the winning thesis, Natalia Edelmann, has a clear vision: she wants to prevent discontinued rehabilitations.

One of the most distinguished experts on social indicators, Rudi Van Dam (Chair of the Indicators Subgroup ISG) is one of the keynote speakers at Pension Adequacy in Europe – Today and Tomorrow. The conference, a side event of Finland’s EU presidency, is organised in Helsinki on 17 September 2019 by the Finnish Centre for …